Lu said:
Based on the text in the Blue Book if you only read certain pages then The UK and OZ types could claim victory. However if you read several more pages in that same text you will see that gyroscopic precession is what is taught in the factory schools in the United States.
Nick sez:
I guess if we wanted to just have the book read to us, we could have asked Nicole Kidman and enjoyed it more.
These books that Lu quotes were written as a sort of Classics Illustrated comic book version for mechanics and electricians to get enough of the basics to keep from crushing their fingers as they turned the wrenches. Any semblence between them and a reasonable engineering understanding of the underlying physics is almost coincidental, Lu.
You are at it again, Lu. To paraphrase your interminable posts, "Anytime I appeared to be wrong it was because someone told me to say the wrong thing, and anytime I am right, it is because I have been around since Christ flew crew changes on the Arc."