On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 19:30, John Carmack wrote:

> I just live with the cross-axis coupling, but you can rotate things a 
> little and actually make the issue go away -- instead of thinking about 
> throttling one engine up to pitch or yaw, throttle two adjacent engines up 
> to rotate as if there was an engine exactly between them.  The cants are 
> opposite, so the rolls cancel out.  I still leave my engines in line with 
> my gyro axis for setup convenience, but if you make your vehicle axis 
> between the engines like this, you can get pure torques.

Hmmm...
I had figured that to yaw left decrease left engine thrust and increase
right engine thrust simultaneously. Since opposite motors generate
torque in the same direction this should mean no (little) torque change.

Dave

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