That last mile

--- In spacesettlers, Ian Woollard wrote:

> Ok test, to see if you've really understood this ;-)
>
> You take off in an aeroplane in an Island 3 habitat,
> along the axis of the cylinder.
>
> Your experienced gravity would be:
>
> a) about normal gravity
> b) about zero-g
> c) negative gravity
>
> You then turn antispinward, and you set your airspeed
> to the same as the rim speed but in the opposite direction.
> (Maintaining altitude.)
>
> Your experienced gravity would be:
>
> a) about normal gravity
> b) about zero-g
> c) about negative gravity
>
> (Tricky one!) You then accelerate to twice the airspeed,
> maintaining the same altitude in the same direction. What
> gravity force would you feel:
>
> a) about normal gravity
> b) about zero-g
> b) about negative gravity

Would you consider setting this up as a poll, and we can see how many
of us get these right? I *think* I know the answers, but I'm going
to wait and give mgellis2 a chance to answer first. After all, this
was posted in response to his question.

Xenophile (cooking up a few technical questions of his own)