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Old 11th Apr 2021, 17:29
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unmanned_droid
 
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Originally Posted by Mogwi
"Firstly I’m sure I remember hearing that specialist cradles had been procured to eliminate the motion of the ocean though I may be wrong."

'Twould require a massively complex arrangement to counter ship's heave, even if you could sort pitch and roll. I imagine random undemanded applications of +/- 1/2 G in the box would cause a certain amount of gyro-toppling and lunch regurgitation.😬

Mog
I believe the plan is to place the sims on the carrier elevator and run it up and down to cancel heave...and have the ship be in to wind at all times during sim runs to cancel out sideways translation (whatever ship mates call that...lol)
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