Colorado Gyronauts fly in the Rockies

Everyone knows GyroCopters won't fly in Colorado, ... Or what I did on Labor Day Weekend

Todd Rieck and Mark Shook grabbed the Sony haniCam and headed out into the morning air to show you the Colorado Rockies this September 2010 Labor Day Weekend !


Garden Of The Gods

Garden of the Gods looking West

Garden of the Gods looking NW


Garden of the God's

Mark, Good to see you flying and happy to see that you got to take Racer up with you. Keep up the good work and plan on bringing your machine to Utah next summer for the "Rotors Over the Rockies" event in June.

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the Kissing Camels ^

Manitou Springs ^

Over Manitou looking North at Williams Canyon ^

Willams canyon below cave of the Winds ^

Cave of the Winds Gift shop ^

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Flying over Ute pass at 8500msl with Pike Peak towering over at 14,110ft MSL

Think we can put it in that flat spot if the engine quits? ^

Flying up Ute pass to wards Woodland Park CO. ^ ^

Looking W toward Woodland Park with South Park beyond



Race to the clouds (If you look closely, you can see the dirt road they race to the top of Pikes Peak on during the Pikes Peak Hill climb race each July 4th weekend..)

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Over Woodland Park at 10,00MSL looking back East towards Colorado Springs ^ ^

Descending Down the pass back to Colorado Springs CO. ^ ^

Over Hwy 24 looking East ^ ^

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Almagre 12, 367MSL on the left - Pikes Peak 14,110MSL on the right ^ ^

Flying south along the front range towards NORAD ^ ^

^ ^ Through the notch ^ ^

and East down 7 falls rd towards the Broadmoor Hotel ^ ^

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Broadmoor hotel and golf course ^ ^

Cheyenne Mnt and Will Rogers Shrine..NORAD ahead at the base of the mountain.


NORAD



Entrance to NORth American air Defense command


Looking North at Garden of the Gods , Norad behind us, heading East to the COS Airport

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Looking NE over the City with Black Forest in the distance


Fort Carson Colorado, just East of NORAD




Close in Right Downwind for 17R at COS



Xenon gets Red Carpet arrival at the Jet Center COS




Xenon with 35 Citation Jets on the Ramp behind.

Thanks for sharing.
Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, NORAD, Broadmoor.
Fabulous pictures!
Except for the first one with the nose hairs. :twitch:

Penguin said:

Thanks for sharing.
Garden of the Gods, Pikes Peak, NORAD, Broadmoor.
Fabulous pictures!
Except for the first one with the nose hairs. :twitch:

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We give you the up close and personal tour of flying in the Rocky Mountains. No sugar coating or air brushing involved. LOL ! (When Todd takes a "close up", he gets it close.)

That was really some good pictures. That Gyro really can climb.

Friendly said:

That was really some good pictures. That Gyro really can climb.

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Mark

I have lived in Colorado Springs since 1973, and have wanted a Gyro since 1974. For many years I was told Gyro's can't fly above 6,000 feet. Our summer density altitude is regularly over 9500ft DA. (6874 field elevation)

In those shots up Ute pass, I estimate the DA was about 11K. I was over 10K MSL for a few miles when we did our turn over Woodland Park Colorado (8600 MSL city elevation, nearby pass ridges over 9,500MSL.)

Considering it weighs 620 lbs empty, and was carrying close to 500 lbs payload, Yeah, it climbs amazingly well.

Mark

Link to over 200 photo's Todd took from the Xenon in Sept 2010.


http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm94/ms80831/Xenon%20flights%20%20Sept%20%202010/?albumview=slideshow


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