From: toby@ccl.umist.ac.uk   
      
   Would it make any sense to design a surf launched tourist vehicle which is   
   spun up while floating in the water? This could then be a totally passive   
   guidance 'system'. Just point it straight up, spin, then launch. Not a   
   transistor   
   in sight.   
      
   The hard bit would be designing the counter-rotating crew-module on top. It   
   might need a motor and bearing a bit like on the roton engine, depending on   
   how   
   much friction there is between the two sections.   
      
   Or perhaps, just making the crew compartment rotate a little bit in the   
   opposite   
   direction by adding canted  fins too it would be enough, so that by the time   
   the   
   booster separated the crew compartment would have ended up rotating gently   
   in the same direction as the booster.   
      
   Toby   
      
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