That is an interesting point. As I mentioned in the post, we have effectively achieved what we set out to achieve, but we haven’t really moved on from there – too many other projects and not enough time I suppose. Actually, I think James has made more concrete plans for the next version, but I haven’t spoken to him about this for a while.

What has surprised me is the fact that very few other people have tried anything in this direction. I was convinced that following the first couple of flights, other people would develop their own versions and we would all benefit from the variety of approaches and ideas that would inevitably come up. This hasn’t really happened, unfortunately, although maybe that will change.

I saw an interesting attempt last year (I think) using cold gas jets, which looked promising. And I know someone who is starting to investigate some interesting twists on stabilisation. Maybe we are on the verge of active control becoming less rare! It will still be a while before it becomes mainstream, but it would be nice if there were a few more projects out there in this area.

Michael

Does anyone know why there was’nt any further work done with GYROC?

Thanks

JohnJ