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Originally Posted by arcosine
The only 2 problems were....
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To be fair, they were experimental prototypes designed to test the ground-taxiing characteristics of his jet-stilt flying Omnidirectional Transport. Can we use today's standards to judge a flathead Ford drivetrain? Dubonnet much?
What the testing revealed was profound yawing in crosswinds, what the Lane museum replica (of the depricated two-piece frame design not shared with the others) reveals is
NO (zip zilch,nada) self-centering in the steering. every steering correction has to be countermanded.
None of this applies to the six-tired three wheel drive [and steering?] Dymaxion Four.