1961 machine

[Jim]

I stumbled upon the following picture in a June 1961 Popular Mechanics. It shows a tractor autogiro built by two chiropractors, Drs. Wayne Gustafson and Charles Stober of Portland, Oregon. Looks like a good, stable design. Look at the simple controls!

Anyone who knows how it performed and what happened to it?

Jim

[barnstorm2]

Sounds cool! Can you scan the image?

[Jim]

Oops,

Seems as if my jpeg file did not upload.

Let's try again

Jim

[Brent_Brown]

They look happy, like this thing works COOOOOL.

[BoneyM]

I wonder if they are not laughing at each other saying I am not taking this thing up in the air, and the guy standing up says no fracking way, your crazy even to try.

[Mike484]

Originally Posted by BoneyM

I wonder if they are not laughing at each other saying I am not taking this thing up in the air, and the guy standing up says no fracking way, your crazy even to try.

I tend to think your right.

[WHY]

I tend to think that it would not fly well , if at all. Without a fairing on the front, the prop blast on the pilot will act more as a air brake than anything else. This problem has been encountered before on other tractor experiments without a fairing or wind deflector of some kind.

Tony