Different Gimble,4 Blader

[aaron hughes]

This is pictured in about 1982 i think

[GyroRon]

looks scary.

[donshoebridge]

That looks very similar to Ernie Boyette's 4-blade set-up of a few years ago. Yes or no?

[Screw]

Screw-In

C'mon Ron, You know you'd fly it! It does look scary :eek: Smells of rotor failure all over it. But, If the weld did break clean all at once in flight, that rotor might clear the craft with no damage to the craft. Just the people and property on the ground. :(

Screw-Out

[Russell]

All that and it is still a single bearing head!!!!! What holds the towers together????? :confused:

[PW_Plack]

With no provision for lead/lag, wouldn't there be a pretty severe bending force on the hub bars twice per rev? And the hub bars don't look like they'd be the first to break...

[aaron hughes]

Fellas i was only young when my father was flying on this configuration it actually flew very well.....although the rotor speed was to slow.it would of been around 82-85
cheers hughesy

[GyroRon]

Aaron where are you located? What country and what town?

[Kevin_Richey]

Aaron:

What was the rotor speed?

How was it compared to the early autogiro four-bladed rotors?

What were the advantages and dis-advantages that your dad noticed?

Did it have almost vertical landing capabilities? Very short take-off abilities? I've always thought that it'd be real neat to be able to do that like the early autogiros...Larry Neal is approaching that with his Butterfly gyro landing gear set-up!

Is he still flying a gyro?

Ron Awad (the mighty poster): I'm guessing Aaron is from the land of Paul Bruty, Birdy, and others, due to the "cheers" in 1) his sign-off (usually used by those "blokes" who either live in Australia, New Zealand, or England, or one who has travelled extensively or lived there), 2) him writing the town of "Orroroo", like "digerie-doo" (spelling?), and "kangeroo", being Oz terms, and by 3) the reddish-brown "Outback"-type landscape...scrub trees/bush, or maybe cattle country (by the looks of some green grass in the distance) shown in the the four-bladed gyro photo. He might live in a city now, but the gyro was flown/shown in the mid 80's out in a rural area.

[Kevin_Richey]

Say, Aaron:

Anything to say about that four rotor rotorhead?

(See my post above)

[aaron hughes]

Gday kevin,and gyroron....Sorry fellas ive been away for a week.
Very good, on where i come from kevin,Orroroo, south australia Yep country.
I cant recall everything on that particular set up as there were so many,and i was only young.
But hearing some conservations in later years,it flew very well once he ioned out the rotor kick.
It had tremendous lift,and flying characteristics.....but he went away from it....so im guessing it wasnt suitable for recreational flying.
I think the rotor speed was less than half...so maybe around 150-180 rpm.
The vertical takes offs and landings....was a thing he wanted out of his great tractor,rather than the 4 blader i think.
Cheers fellas