WHY
07-26-2006, 06:20 PM
For those of you interested in the tractor gyro I thought this might be of interest.
While at the Mentone convention last week I finally had the opportunity to get down from the tower this year and do some visiting and looking around. As I was in the main office getting some of the equipment for the tower, I took the opportunity to look thru some of the old issues of "ROTORCRAFT' magazine and found a absolute gold mine about tractor design and construction in a article about Jim Eich and another article about one of our PRA pioneers in tractor gyro's, Arliss Riggs, (written by Jim Eich).
Picked up a total of 6 magazines at $5.00 each with other articles on "STABILITY" and flying procedures and design, after reading them I would have given $10.00 each, the ones on Eich and Riggs are a "must have" for anyone interested in the tractor gyroplane.
They are issues April 1977 (Eich) and December 1977 (Riggs)
There are still a few of these issues left.
PS the issue of horizontal stabs is not new, they were being used on the more futuristic machines back in the 70's
While at the Mentone convention last week I finally had the opportunity to get down from the tower this year and do some visiting and looking around. As I was in the main office getting some of the equipment for the tower, I took the opportunity to look thru some of the old issues of "ROTORCRAFT' magazine and found a absolute gold mine about tractor design and construction in a article about Jim Eich and another article about one of our PRA pioneers in tractor gyro's, Arliss Riggs, (written by Jim Eich).
Picked up a total of 6 magazines at $5.00 each with other articles on "STABILITY" and flying procedures and design, after reading them I would have given $10.00 each, the ones on Eich and Riggs are a "must have" for anyone interested in the tractor gyroplane.
They are issues April 1977 (Eich) and December 1977 (Riggs)
There are still a few of these issues left.
PS the issue of horizontal stabs is not new, they were being used on the more futuristic machines back in the 70's