Pick Your Poison

Pick Your Poison

  • Pusher Open/Semi Open Frame

    Votes: 12 24.0%
  • Pusher Enclosed Frame

    Votes: 19 38.0%
  • Tractor Open/Semi Open Frame

    Votes: 4 8.0%
  • Tractor Enclosed Frame

    Votes: 15 30.0%

  • Total voters
    50
  • Poll closed .

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If money and building weren't an issue, what gyro would you rather have?

Please feel free to elaberate.

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A trail bike or a road Bike? - both designed for different jobs and neither are suitable for the other application.
If I had to decide I would have chosen an open frame single seat for my younger and fair weather flying, and having been there and done that, I would now choose a fully enclosed touring machine.
Every Gyro that I have built so far has been a pusher so the next machine I will build will probably be a tractor.
 
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I am a bit like Tim

I am a bit like Tim

I have been there and done that with the open frame gyros and enjoyed every minute of it.

Now I like my fully enclosed, with removable doors, stable training touring gyro.

I would love to have a tractor as well if I was allowed to have two!!!!!

I almost started building a tractor back when I saw Jim Eichs in a PRA mag. Probably around 1986. At that time we were all trying to find a way to train in a powered gyro, weren't we Tim.

I could see that it was the only way at that time to get enough thrust to carry 2 people for training. The problem I could see was, people were all building sit out in the front open frame gyros, and converting them from tractor to open frame would have its problems.

Before I got started with the tractor,the Rotax with the great power to weight ratio came along and we headed down that path.

Aussie Paul. :)
 
You need an 'all of the above' catagory. If money were really no problem I would have at least one of each :D

I choose tractor -open/semi. I have never flown in one but since I have open single and semi-open 2 place that is a new and intriquing concept.
 
I'd get a surplus Saturn 5 rocket, And bolt a lawn chair to it!








And let the Ex-wife go for a ride!!!!
 
The Hawk 4 looks nice, but you'd still have to have an open single place.
 
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Tim, That is something I didn't think about when making the pole. My motorcycle taste have changed with age and experiance too. Gyros are really no different.

If money were no object, I'd probably have one of each and transport them to the fly-ins in a C-130.

Scott, You just gave me a flash back to a movie with Tommy Lee Jones, Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, James Garner. Forget the name though.

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Well I must be a rich bastered,I got one of each,an RAF 914 and an open single 912.My preferance? the nimble open one,but the RAF is good if I gotta go more than 200kms or if it's raining or -10c.
 
Birdy,

You use them for work also though right? I think that makes you a lucky bastered too since you get to drive one to and at work.. :)
 
I also want one each, one enclosed for most of my cool weather flying and one open for the nice weather days. Both gotta be 2-place. 4-place enclosed would be even nicer if you could still keep some of the turn-on-a-dime sporty feel.
 
Birdy, if it gets to -10c at Alice Springs then I'm in trouble here in Victoria.
I would go for an open single tractor, very light and a 912 100hp.
Graeme Monro.
 
I feel the true joy of gyro flying is low and slow chasing whatever. If I need to go any distance then I take the Bonanza.

So I vote for the small open machines.
 
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That's what I'm talking about Mike...except the fastest thing I've ever flown was a cherokee. :eek:

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A Bonanza is what a Cherokee wants to be when it grows up..LOL

170 kts and 8 hours of fuel........you can do some serious travelling.
 
You betcha Barnstorm,I gotta be the luckyest bloke alive ay.Mind you,the RAF is tempting when it is anything below 20c but there are too many blind spots for the blind to see cattle and if they [cattle] want to play games,the RAF is just too slow and heavy.
If I had to get rid of one for some reason I'd give my left nut first.[it don't work anyway.]
-10c isn't that bad Monro,it's probably the same as +10c and rain.[your only as cold as the one your feel'n.]
 
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