Rotary engines of this type used to be very popular in aircraft, because it was claimed they were lighter, but this is the first time I've ever heard of their use in a vehicle.
I wonder? It must have some sort of clutch at the very least. As for turning, gyro's will twist at an axis 90 degrees to the input. So if you steer to the left rotating in the Z axis it will react by trying to turn in the x axis causing the wheel to want to lean. Good if it leans into the corner, bad if it tries to lean out of the corner.
and to be fair this one is six f'n shades of crazy, I can completely understand why the video doesn't actually show the bike in road action how ever I was amazed they actually started it and it didn't whirl across the floor in some centripetal motion. To be honest it actually left me gob smacked.
In the notes that accompany that great animation it mentions the total loss lubrication with castor oil, the pilots were flying through a diffuse cloud of it.
No Sopwith Camel pilot ever suffered from constipation (and that had nothing to do with the very real terrors of WW 1 air combat).
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