I havent bothered to follow up on my thread since babeths rather unhelpful remarks but Im glad that Gary has commented.
The reason I brought the issue up was the flipping OOTA of Vader in S7 heats filming and unlucky subsequent failure of a weapon relay which kept the vertical flywheel full on even in failsafe. Not so disasterous in Vaders case as I think that a member of the technical team (Derek Foxwell?) pulled the link to stop the disk. If the OOTA robot had been a powerful out of control FBS then what?
Kim - We had this discussion when series 7 was being filmed and came to the conclusion that it would be most unlikely that Typhoon would get flipped out of the arena.
We would also ask the team of any flipper that was about to fight typhoon not to do so, but if they were losing the battle then they were free to do as they pleased.
Another rule change!!! FBS cant get flipped OOTA!! Damn I wish Id known that before building CHIP