A speedy Gyrocopter!...

[Fozzer]

Interested as I am, in "Gyrocopters", with a free-rotating main rotor (NOT Helicopters!), I found this variation on a theme very interesting!

http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/helic ... NDcyMjg3S0

I often fly Gyrocopters in the FS 2004/FSX Flight Sim, and they make fascinating, highly versatile, highly manoeuvrable, very safe, flying machines!

Paul...Gyrating for fun!... ...!

Just for fun, give one a try, you may get to like it!... .....>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ixIJ58KLA

[papituwall]

Autogyro still alive!

http://www.gyroplanepassion.com/Juan_de_la_Cierva.html

Cierva C30, a contributor of the Battle of Britain, at IWM Duxford:

http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acimages/cierva_c30a_kp.jpg

[Fozzer]

Autogyro still alive!

http://www.gyroplanepassion.com/Juan_de_la_Cierva.html

Cierva C30, a contributor of the Battle of Britain, at IWM Duxford:

http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acimages/cierva_c30a_kp.jpg

Many thanks for the wonderful links, Papi!.... ...!

I have saved them in my "Gyrocopter Folder"!

Note in the video, the group of helpers with a long length of rope wrapped around the Rotor spindle to spin the rotor into life, ("pre-rotator"; detachable, geared drive mostly used nowadays), whilst still on the ground.....HAGAR will be interested to see that!
Once in the air, with forward motion, the rotor will spin on its own, with the air-flow over the blades. They then become "Wings"!
Fascinating machines!

America: Gyrocopter.
Europe: Gyroplane.

Paul.... ...!

[papituwall]

There is one flyable Cierva C30. It was built at request of the La Cierva Foundation in the spanish Airforce Works (Maestranza aérea in Albacete). They reached an agreement with the IWM Museum of Hendon, in which the IWM gave original parts (rotor head, blades set, landing gear, etc.) and loaned an autogyro C-30 (AVRO ROTA) to be copied, in exchange for a flyable Bücker CASA 1.131 that can now be seen in the RAF museum. First flight on January 15, 1998. After an accident in June 2000 it was decided not to fly and is exhibited in the Air Museum. The letters MZ were added in recognition of the work done by the Maestranza de Albacete.

Beginning on the Cierva C.19 Mk IV (AVRO Type 620), the rotor was started directly from the engine via a clutch mechanism.

[Fozzer]

For those wishing to try a Gyrocopter out, the excellent "Barnett J4B2" is available for FS 2004, and I have modified the instrument panel gauges to become compatible with FSX...>>>

http://www.rotorcraft.com/barnett/index.html

Easy to fly, and well worth trying out... ...!

Something a bit different!

Paul.... ..!