rtfm
Gold Member
- Joined
- Mar 24, 2004
- Messages
- 531
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
- Aircraft
- Robin R2120
- Total Flight Time
- 105
Hi,
I've got to say this (I hope there are other designers reading this) but designing something from scratch is DIFFICULT! It takes hours. Days. Weeks. Sitting there, looking, trying to think in 3-D. It's like playing 3-D chess. Imagining what the frame geometry will look like, what will connect to what, where the stresses will be, what the aesthetics will be like (sexiness sells anything, including gyros). I've sat in my humble workshop hours on end, pondering, imagining, building wire models to assist with visualisation. Drunk many litres of beer. And what do I have to show for it? A wire-frame model of a pusher gyro which has a roll-cage requiring only two welds. Sexy? Yes. Functional? Dunno.
What I'm trying to say is that is so easy to criticise something which is out there, but spare a thought for the time, expertise, (sometimes genius) which form the ingredients of our current crop of gyros. These things don't invent themselves...
Regards,
Duncan
I've got to say this (I hope there are other designers reading this) but designing something from scratch is DIFFICULT! It takes hours. Days. Weeks. Sitting there, looking, trying to think in 3-D. It's like playing 3-D chess. Imagining what the frame geometry will look like, what will connect to what, where the stresses will be, what the aesthetics will be like (sexiness sells anything, including gyros). I've sat in my humble workshop hours on end, pondering, imagining, building wire models to assist with visualisation. Drunk many litres of beer. And what do I have to show for it? A wire-frame model of a pusher gyro which has a roll-cage requiring only two welds. Sexy? Yes. Functional? Dunno.
What I'm trying to say is that is so easy to criticise something which is out there, but spare a thought for the time, expertise, (sometimes genius) which form the ingredients of our current crop of gyros. These things don't invent themselves...
Regards,
Duncan