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Rc planes are a few orders of magnitude smaller than commercial aircraft. They have practically no flex and therefore fatigue. A gyro large enough to counter t
by thsksbd 3y ago
Rc planes are a few orders of magnitude smaller than commercial aircraft. They have practically no flex and therefore fatigue.
A gyro large enough to counter turbulence in an airliner would be too heavy to fly and too the fuselage apart
- snovv_crash 3y agoIt isn't a gyroscope that physically resists rotation. It is an active sensor that is used to control a PID loop to control the actuators and reduce the disturbance. The technology in the linked article is even different, they put a sensor far in front of the wing and preemptively control the surfaces to counteract turbulence.
- 83 3y agoThe gyros in RC are misleading. They are a sensor (gyrometer) which isn't using mass to counter movement, the are merely letting the plane know when it has shifted so it can move the control surfaces accordingly. Gyros have mostly been replaced by accelerometers at this point.