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    Montana new member

    Just had a look at that kelpie model, they don't show much info on the tyre size. Do you know Chris? looks like maybe 600-6. wolfy
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    Montana new member

    As I'm from Australia I can only recommend an Australian brand that I have used. A gyroscopic rotorcraft ( a Rosco) with a 9 series Rotax 4 stroke. There is no gyro on the planet with more accumulative farm/ranch fleet hours, these are the machines that do 95% of the gyro mustering in Oz. wolfy
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    Montana new member

    For the needs you just described mate, there is no better aircraft than a gyro in my opinion. In experienced hands a gyro will handle very strong winds and not even bat an eye. wolfy
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    FATAL - BRAKO Gyro 65-QX, Geville, Meuse, France 23 SEP 2022

    My 2 seater never had any pre rotator in the time I owned it. I was able to get the 29' glass blades up from a hand start everytime. wolfy
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    FATAL - BRAKO Gyro 65-QX, Geville, Meuse, France 23 SEP 2022

    I agree, as I said some machines (like a two seat tandem) and some peoples physical ability limit if patting up by hand can be done. It's not about hand patting it's about getting rotors up from low rpm. So to limit the pre spinner to 50 rrpm (just for rotor management training) will teach far...
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    FATAL - BRAKO Gyro 65-QX, Geville, Meuse, France 23 SEP 2022

    Aerodynamics and physics has no vintage. Some machines and some people's health limits the ability to hand spin the rotors, But i agree with Mike accept that I think the pre rotator should be released at about 50 RRPM (about the same as hand spinning) maybe 60 for dragon wings and students...
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    FATAL - BRAKO Gyro 65-QX, Geville, Meuse, France 23 SEP 2022

    Isn't your aviomania a single seat? Why not? wolfy
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    Prerotator vs partially powered rotor

    I wanted to do this a while ago but never followed through, I really hope someone does the experiment with new tech . There is so many advantages to this as a pre spinner. wolfy
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    Prerotator vs partially powered rotor

    His videos are on the Ralf Taggert gyrobee website, I think it was. wolfy
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    Edge Performance Engines and Engine Kits

    Loftus, mostly I agree with you. But you can bet that rotax have done a whole heap of testing on there mods (like big bore for example) to at least iron out most of the bugs before there customers find the shortcomings. There 9 series engines are pretty dam reliable. wolfy
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    Early A.C. Prerotator electric conversion?

    Let alone the horrid noise it would make all flight, straight cut gears are noisy with the bendix driving in the right direction but add the reliefs cut in a bendix gear and the noise from a bendix being driven is even worse. wolfy
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    Edge Performance Engines and Engine Kits

    Lets just see how many of his engines repeatedly make even close to 2000 hrs without too much trouble. I don't like to bring down someones company in a public forum but i will share my bad experience. On a 914 I ordered one of his turbo's, not to have any gain in hp but rather just to have a...
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    ELA Eclipse 10 N70WP 1/17/24

    A gyro can handle them probably better than anything. When flying around looking for cows, if I saw dust devils I would hunt them down and fly into them just for something to do and give the ground crew something to talk about. A dust devil is not a thermal and vice versa. Rodga be careful...
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    ELA Eclipse 10 N70WP 1/17/24

    A gyro is about the most stable aircraft there is in adverse weather, what they can really handle would surprise most. The rotor is of course a 30kg gyroscope it really doesn't want to change directions. But yaw a little less stable. wolfy
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    Rotor vibration monitoring

    No friction, but a gas strut/spring on the collective with the right geometry it would not raise the collective while down but just come into plat at cruise/hover power range. wolfy
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