Hi Mike
On (23 Oct 97) MIKE ROSS wrote to Alec Cameron...
 MR> Is that the Son of Pinto with the exploding flywheels when rear ended?
 MR> "If your moment of inertia is perpendicular to the direction of travel a
 MR> flywheel should have negligible influence on steering", says the judge.
 MR> ........................................................... If twin
 MR> counter rotating flywheels are used their vectors would balance out.
OOO-errrrrrr. One flywheel bearing seizure in hard winter, and the car is
ready to do a Sonja Henie gyration way down the road!
 MR> Carbon fibre has a sharply defined elastic limit and in a crash the
 MR> flywheel disintegrates just like the windshield into a million little
 MR> pieces. Didn't you see that tv news clip of an F117 losing a wing tip in
 MR> an air show not that long ago?
No, not seen. I have no thoughts on carbon fibre except as flying suits for
the military. Based on activated charcoal, these absorb poisonous fumes.
Pioneered by a wee company in my hometown village of Muir of Ord, in Ross-
shire. Betcha none of you guys have been THERE!  Cheers......ALEC
... ......I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland [Rev S. 
Smith]
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