World record for an auto-gyro flight...

[Fozzer]

Here is an interesting little article published in Pilot Magazine*, April 2003, regarding strange little aeroplanes, Auto-gyro's....!

(Boeing 777 flight simmers from all around the world shout in unison... "NAH. it's not. It's BORING"..)... ...!
...Anyway, here it is, for me and my mate Zorak from Outer Mongolier...



I wonder if any real-time pilots out there have actually flown one of these amazing little machines?
They are not like helicopters insofar as the main rotor is not driven by the engine in flight. I rotates, and therefore supports the craft, merely by being driven by the airflow over the rotor!
Some nice little examples to try out can be found here...


http://www.simviation.com/fsgliders_6.htm

Cheers...
Paul.
(England).

*Article courtesy of Pilot Magazine.
http://www.pilotweb.co.uk

[BFMF]

interesting

[Fozzer]

interesting

Hi Andrew... ...!
That reply sounds more like, "..really BORING", rather than "REALLY interesting".....!
LOL...LOL...LOL... ...!

Cheers mate... ...!
Paul.
(England).

P.S. anyway, my mate Zorak, from Outer Mongolier, was interested in it anyway, so there... ...LOL...!

[BFMF]

That reply sounds more like, "..really BORING", rather than "REALLY interesting".....!
LOL...LOL...LOL... ...!

It is interesting, I just dunno what to say about it

[Hagar]

P.S. anyway, my mate Zorak, from Outer Mongolier, was interested in it anyway, so there... ...LOL...!

So where exactly is this Outer Mongolier Fozzer? Was your friend Zorak something to do with ballooning? Oh sorry that was Montgolfier.

[BFMF]

lol

[Fozzer]

[quote]


The Wallis Autogyro was later produced by Beagle Aircraft who were based at the airport.

[Bazza]

Fozzer,

I used to do a bit of yachting (Sailboats for US citizens) and the theory was you should have a boat the same size in feet as your age (grow old comfortably.)

Old blokes like us shouldn't be looking at Toys, get real.

[ozzy72]

I've heard about this Fozzer, and you should know better than to post in the wrong forum!

Ozzy

PS. I quite like flying Little Nellie is FS2k2, and I believe the characteristics are fairly accurate.

[Hagar]

As I understood it at the time, Wallis developed his version from a Benson (Bensen) Gyrocopter kit which he originally built in his garage. http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/aero/aircraft/benson_b8.htm
He made many modifications to the original design & some were fitted with a fairing like Little Nellie.

It was remarkably stable & I've seen him demontrating it with both hands & feet off the controls during a low -slow fly past, grinning like a Cheshire cat. It could almost hover in anything but a dead calm so something must be wrong with that AIR file on the FS version. Wallis' explanation of the fatal accident was that although his friend "Pee Wee" Judge was a highly experienced & respected fixed wing test pilot his total time on the gyro was limited. His instinctive reactions when in trouble were the reverse of what he was used to. I found this photo of the accident on a Japanese website. It seems clear to me that the rotor somehow hit the vertical tail structure with the obvious result.

[pete]

http://www.pilotweb.co.uk/news_story.cfm?id=3064

On simviation front page March 01

[Hagar]

Thanks Pete. I stick to the forums & don't visit the main site these days. That's my excuse anyway.
Can you check that link. It doesn't work for me.  ???

[pete]

[quote]Thanks Pete. I stick to the forums & don't visit the main site these days. That's my excuse anyway.
Can you check that link. It doesn't work for me.

[Hagar]

[quote]

Site seems to be down D.. Hagar ...

[BMan1113VR]

[quote]
You can call me Doug now. I "came out" publicly in another thread.