kolibri282

Unfortunately I am quite a bit away from turning out any hardware. My idea is a bit special so I have to come up with a design of my own and I feel I need a very thorough understanding of existing theory for this. That is why I programmed a numerical gyro simulation program. That one has made considerable progress though and I hope to be able to release it to the public sometime this year.
Do you already have an idea where in Germany you will be deployed and how long you will stay? We could try to meet and talk gyros over a nice beer....;-)

Yes, it has been a while. No, no progress has been made as of yet. I've joined the active duty army and been back and forth to Afghanistan twice now, and will be moving to Germany at the end of the year. I am finally going to build myself a gyro, though. How far along are you on yours?

Hi Jacob, long time no hear....;-)
Apart from the usual problem that progress on my gyro program is much slower than I'd like it to be I am doing very well. I had tried to contact you several times and when that failed I was worried as to what might have happened. Great to hear from you! Is your project now getting under way again, Jacob?

na du! wie gehts alles bei dir?

Sounds good Juergen.

Do you want to do it a and make it a sticky, or should I do it?

Hafner's rotor head:
http://www.google.com/patents/US2338935
http://www.google.com/patents/US2265366
http://www.google.com/patents/US2493869
http://www.google.com/patents/US2600531
http://www.google.com/patents/US2640553

Enjoy!

Hi,

My university is working on designing and building a Light-Helicopter (about 100kg) for civil purposes and I'm in the rotor group. I'm currently assigned to do a research on main rotor components and their materials. I've been searching the net for a resource book for my essay but I couldn't find anything so I was wondering if you know a book or an article about materials used in rotor which I can read for my essay.

my e-mail address is csmafi@gmail.com...I'll be more than glad if I could use your help!

Enjoy: :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2yeauqYoSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6u1eUz4XFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zafwyo7cSKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYD10OB1FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOa-9MZ3Xrg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80cfYB35p30

Jüergen,
A new picture for Your avatar:
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/250...so-slow-3.html

http://dodreports.com/tag/rotary-wing-aircraft
http://dodreports.com/topic/helicopters
Enjoy!