Rotors Over Carolina 2004 pictures

[GyroRon]

Well back from a long week of gyroplanes and portajohns! Had a great time myself and thankfully we had no mishaps and good weather all week. Winds were light and temps were just right.

It was a pleasure to meet alot of new faces, and to visit with some of the more familar ones too! John Stevens was a good camping mate - so as long as you like to be woke up at 5 in the morning when he wakes up :eek: - And his daughter Snores louder than he does! :D

Got to fly alot of gyros there. Got a chance to fly a Pit Bull that has been groud bound for years, and it flew pretty good once in the air. Got to fly Chris CLS447's sweet two place. It was also a nice machine and you'd be hard pressed to find a better detailed or built machine - if only it had 20 more horses! - Also got a chance to zoom around in ground effect in the Starbee gyro's bright yellow bee, It needed a better prop or a few more horsepower for my fat butt, but it was smooth and fun to fly... Anyone building a gyrobee like that one will be very happy!

Anyway here is a ton of pictures.

1. Camp GyroRon
2. John Stevens gearing up
3. Camp GyroRon after the Screw shows up
4. Seen on someones tail....

[GyroRon]

1. Oh no here comes Trouble
2. Tim Verroi fly by
3. Rick Abercrombie and Scott Essex
4. Tim Verroi taxiing in

[GyroRon]

1. John Stevens showing his pride and joy
2. Ken Rehler and Chris Wilson
3. Chris CLS 447's rig with bright pink ROC motto on the sides
4. Mrs. Starbee visiting Jack and Elaine in the registration booth

[GyroRon]

1. Nightly Campfire chat
2. Still chatting!
3. Me in the Starbee gyro
4. Tim Verroi explaining how sweet it was to fly low and fast

[GyroRon]

1. Still hanging around the fire pit
2. Jonathan Weis' monster gyro
3. Jamie Bodies Girls watching a movie
4. Hanging out with Ernie

[GyroRon]

1. Scott Essex's truck with Road kill tally on the front fender :D
2. Ernie and Connie Boyette on his Scooter
3. Few of the Fixed wingers that flew in
4. Nose Art on Shacks Kolb

[GyroRon]

1. The Captain!
2. George and George!
3. George Moore and Ken Rehler
4. Tweety Bird Gyro

[GyroRon]

1. Fixed winger coming in for a visit
2-4. Ken Rehlers nice gyro

[GyroRon]

1. Bo Collins
2. Maxie Wildes
3. Jonathan Weis
4. Scott Essex, Just Plane Bob, and The Screw jerry Rigging Johns gyro :D

[GyroRon]

1. Starbee showplane
2. Look at those cool shocks!
3. Nice white Dominator
4. Brent Browns gyro taking a nap

[GyroRon]

1. The ladies of ROC
2. Attack Dog!!!
3. John Sligar with a Smile since I had just gotten his Pitbull in the air
4. Jonathan Weis - Automan1223 - with a smile since for once for the last 3 years things were finally working out for him, Go Automan!!

[GyroRon]

1. Jonathans Machine
2. Gary Neal CFI coming in from a flight
3. Gary Neal
4. Tim - aka the Animal - chillin out in his FourRunner

[GyroRon]

1.Starbee camp
2. Furtherest distance drove in
3. Trenton Flyers crew hanging out
4. More gyros

[GyroRon]

1. Ken Rehler with Dan Leslies " How to fly gyroplanes " instructional tape headed to his car
2. Ken Rehler towed his gyro in that Trailer with his JAG :eek: all the way from Texas!! Guess you could say he travels in style!
3. John Stevens taking my dominator for a spin
4. The Boyettes and Cooks

[GyroRon]

1. Jamie Bodies Little Girls
2. Brent Brown and Chris Wilson
3. Camp Fire action
4. More camp fire chat

[GyroRon]

1. STAR bee ;)
2. Pee Wee Boyette
3. Gyros
4. Another gyro

[GyroRon]

1. Ernie, Maxie and Ora
2. Gyros at Dusk
3. GyroRon Dominator
4. How does Ernie fit all that in that little trailer!?

[GyroRon]

1. the Buzz is the Bee
2. Pat McNears machine
3. Pat heading out
4. Camp CLS447

[GyroRon]

1. Chris and the Captain
2. Lot's of two seaters
3. Ernie Stringing some Blades
4. Dominator Ultrawhite - FOR SALE!!! -

[GyroRon]

1. WATCHOUT!!! you got a gyro landing on your head :D
2. Chris 447 styling in his new machine
3. Chris on the go
4. John Stevens alongside me on our flight to Trenton

[GyroRon]

1. Gyro on approach at Trenton
2. John Stevens going out for a ride in the Trenton flyers Hovercraft
3. Chris 447 after his hovercraft Ride
4. Pat McNear gearing up for his ride

[GyroRon]

1. Naked Pit Bull
2. Flight line
3. My friend Barry giving us a high speed fly by with smoke in his Giles 202
4. Chris 447 and his dogs

[GyroRon]

Lunch trip

1. Did somebody say..... McDonalds!
2. John Stevens and Jennabug

[GyroRon]

1. Just plane Bob going for a Dominator ride
2. Jet Ranger hovering out front
3.
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Thrust testing

[GyroRon]

1. Dave Dewinter with Dreadlocks, Chris Wilson and Jamie Bodie
2. Seafood Dinner Friday Night
3. Kevin Fogleman and Scott Essex
4. Dan Leslie

[GyroRon]

1-4. Me in the Pitbull taking off, flying the pattern and landing

[GyroRon]

Last shot.... Part of ROC taken while I was flying John Stevens Bird - which by the way is a impressive machine.

[barnstorm2]

Great Shots!!

Looks like a really fun time!

[Chuck Irby]

Great shots and descriptions, Ron. Thanx a lot.

[animal]

Last shot.... Part of ROC taken while I was flying John Stevens Bird - which by the way is a impressive machine.

Ron did you take those pics with that little thin camera? those came out great.

All in all I think everyone there had a great time, was really fun meeting some of the guys from the Forum. Glad you got a shot of my Freinds jet ranger I still had my camera packed when he flew in. that was Jim Breznay of the South carolina Helicopter Association.

www.helicopter.org

[GyroRon]

About half of the shots were with my cheap thin radio shack camera and the other half were with my camcorder which has a cheapy digital camera built in.

[Screw]

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Great Pics Ron.

Chuck Irby, Irby, Irby.........What can I say; I wish you could have been there. I sure you would have, if you could. I got to tell ya; you missed a great fly-in.

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[Chuck Irby]

Go ahead and rub it in Screw. It sure looks like a great get-together. Maybe next year, and at the 2nd Annual SX Days. In fact, when Scott gets his new machine flying, maybe we should all invite ourselves to his place. What do you think, JB?

[GyroRon]

Don't know about the rest of you guys and gals, but the next Gyro gathering on my schedule is Wauchula Florida for the Sunstate New years fly in. Great little fly in worth the trip. Then back to Florida in the Spring for Bensen Days....

That is unless there is a Fall SX days in the works... That is tempting

[scottessex]

The weather sure would be cooler!
How about a thanksgiving turkey fly in? :p

[GyroRon]

Hmmmm... Turkey day at Scotts place, Can't do Thanksgiving day itself but could do the weekend before or after. After means leftovers - Yuck! - so what about before?

Besides after Thanksgiving John might not have the favorable thrust to weight ratio he is enjoying as of now ;)

[Screw]

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The cooler weather by Thanksgiving may offset any wieght gain due to the holiday. If I'm wrong and performance is lacking, I can always force myself to puke before I fly. :eek:

Just an idea.

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[scottessex]

It will most likely have to be in the spring, I can't do another one right now, I am doing some work on the house/hangar, and need to get it done before it gets cold.
Besides, my gyro won't be up and flying by next month, :mad: you think I am gonna have a fly in and not fly?! ;)

But we will have another one I promise!

[Aussie_Paul]

Thanks for taking the time to post all those pics for us. Quite a bit of work and I for one really appreciate the effort.

Aussie Paul. :)

[GyroRon]

Your Welcome Paul.

[animal]

Don't know about the rest of you guys and gals, but the next Gyro gathering on my schedule is Wauchula Florida for the Sunstate New years fly in. Great little fly in worth the trip. Then back to Florida in the Spring for Bensen Days....

That is unless there is a Fall SX days in the works... That is tempting
Ron are you at the airport on most sundays?,I had a guy on line today near charolotte that is looking for a gyro,I told him to look for you some day,as you always know where to find a good machine. the guy flys an ultralight now.

[GyroRon]

I am usually there at some part of the day, but rarely do I just hang out at the hangar all day. I usually fly off to a fly in or to another airport or somewhere, but if someone comes out sooner or later they will run into me.

[ventana7]

Thanks for all the great pics and good captions. It is really fun to attach faces to the names on the forum.

Rob

[GyroRon]

Rob are you still "On a sailboat off the coast of Australia" ???

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Here are some photos....

1. Burn Barrel Gaggle
2. Tim Verrio & his Ultra White Dominator with a 582! So sweet!
3. Ron flying the pants off "DaScrew-Driver"
4. The "McGriddler" Himself
5. Burn barrel Gaggle II
6-7. Yours Truely trying to fly the pants off "DaScrew-Driver while wearing an official SX Days T-Shirt to promote the annual event :D (How'd you like that Scott?)

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1-2 My daughter, Jenna, wearing out Maxie. She had alot of fun.
3. I got to fly a hovercraft. Way coll, but not as cool as gyros.
4. A photographer shot of Me taxie back after a flight. Please note: under the flight suit was a Rotary Wing Forum T-shirt.

That's it. All of my other in flight photos came out really dark for some reason.

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[Chuck Irby]

Nice pics, JB. Thanx for sharing them.

[GyroRon]

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That's it. All of my other in flight photos came out really dark for some reason.

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Did you remember to take the lens cap off?

[Chuck Irby]

:D Pretty good, Ron! :D I got my gearbox back yeaterday. The new gears are beautiful. I like Lockwood a lot!

[GyroRon]

I just swapped my gears Wednesday afternoon. What a major pain in the ASS!!!! I bolted on my prop with the same pitch setting as before and went out to the runway to do a crow hop to see what my RPMS would be with the new ratio and same pitch as before...... I ended up somehow overheating my clutch and it slipped like crazy and I had to abort that takeoff. Tried it again a minute later and got lockup on the clutch and only saw 5100 RPMs at straight and level flight 60 mph 10 feet above the runway. With the old ratio I should have seen 6500-6600 RPM. SO.... that means I should end up having to take alot of pitch out which was my goal. I am worried that the new ratio may be too fast and not enough mechanical advantage for us with turning the prop and spinning the pre rotator too. I can't understand why my clutch slipped. Anyway this weekend I will be re pitching my prop and doing another static thrust test to see if there was any improvement. If no improvements are found I am going to put the 3 to 1's back in.

[Chuck Irby]

Ron, I went from 18.5 degrees to 16.25 degrees and kept the same engine RPM. I'll get back to you in a few days, as I'm leaving for a fly-in.

[John_wilkinson]

Thanks for sharing Ron grait to see what is going on over there :rolleyes:

[Aussie_Paul]

Ron, don't jump to conclusions too early. Give it some time, for you to get used to the diferent characteristics etc.

Aussie paul. :)