gyroplanes

If you drop by the site, tell Steve we sent you.

Another worthy site is

The links posted above are very helpful. Check out Autogyro Company of Arizona's Gyro Bee as a beginner's autogyro. The conversion kit mounts on top of a standard Lazy Bee fuselage. I have one in the works, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting the rotor to go into autorotation at the air speed it should.

You may need to shim the blades to get a bit more negative pitch.

Thanks for the info. One more thing I forgot to mention about the Gyro Bee is that you have to beef up the Lazy Bee's landing gear box to accomodate the gyro's long gear. Now, all I gotta do is finish up rebuilding the fuselage from a previously-crashed Bee. (No I didn't wreck the gyro yet -- the wing dowel broke on my "regular" Bee and the fuse turned into a lawn dart) :-(

Gday

A few years ago i built an Airborne magazine plans(Australian magazine)Tango Autogyro. Powered by an old Magnum .040 2stroke (bushed engine) its a great flyer. It has 2 side by side rotors on a stubby wing. Loops, rolls and I could even fly it inverted. When you roll upside down the blades actually stop rotating then begin to rotate in the opposite direction before you continue to fly inverted. hehe. I havent flown it for ages but one day I will put an engine and Rx in it and fly it again for fun.

Check out the pics of my beast here:

Regards Robbo.

Robbo...

Did you get the graphics for the Tango from Don Incoll?? Looks like some I made for him a long time ago...

magazine)Tango