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The air cushion isolates the entire vehicle... perhaps making the "unsprung" weight 0?
by 6ren 13y ago
The air cushion isolates the entire vehicle... perhaps making the "unsprung" weight 0?
- Anechoic 13y agoNo. That would only be true if the vehicle was buoyant.
- jholman 13y agoThe plan uses an air bearing partly because an air bearing is exceptionally stiff. It's not like a hovercraft, with all that ability to squoosh up and down. So the unsprung weight might be the weight of the entire vehicle. edit: though, mind you, the whole capsule also has mechanical suspension