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Cool extreme demo of gyroscopic precession at work...

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Neat. I learned this concept through Flight School in college; namely for the instruments (several are gyroscopic in construction) to learn the errors caused by precession but also because that prop out front? Turns into a giant disk that exhibits the same behaviors as a gyro and can surprise the unsuspecting pilot!