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Lord Dick Tim:
Right on, thanks gato, and thank you for your contributions as well. I'm glad this conversation keeps rolling in several directions in several different threads.
Machiavelliest:
Okay, the turning wheel. I've nerded out about this a bit, so let me explain.
The throttle (there was an argument about this before--it is a throttle) has full forward to full reverse. When you turn your ship, it doesn't slow down, so you're not reducing thrust on any engines. However, shooting out maneuvering engines makes it so you can't turn. That means that engines are the real turning aspect.
If you want to reconcile the fact that the engines are already running at full throttle, yet there's differential thrust making it turn, the helm would have to be adjusting the pitch of the propellers. One could argue that you should be able to just yank the linkage from the helm to the engines to make the thing go even faster, and theoretically you could. It's just ships aren't built that way.
EDIT: Actually, if you watch the engines, they reverse when they're inside of a turn. So I have no idea how to reconcile the GoI ships' performance with science.
Lord Dick Tim:
Ok so we are at that stage where we implant unknown device into the gears that make it all work. The flux capacitor of goi.
Gato Blanco:
Shouldn't be that difficult, an engineer with an afternoon could throw together some facimily of what could control the turning of a ship.
Now, heres a question; communication in the world (Also, what is the name of the world?). Im talking, short range, like 1km, across a battlefield, across a nation, international, and world (again, whats the name?)
would they use ham radio, morse code, owls?
Lord Dick Tim:
We could say that the radio was never invented.
Signal lighting would likely still be in heavy use on sky ships, and flags.
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