Rosco in Australia

[rancherman]

is a 'Rosco' a term or slang, name of designer/manufacturer or general type?

 

[Steve_UK]

Ross Symes


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2001 Broken Hill trip in G-186 gyroplane. Paul Bruty. I had received a number of calls regarding my RAF 2000 GTX SE gyroplane from people at Swan Hill, Mildura and Ross Symes from Broken Hill who needed a BFR, so I thought, why not do a round trip in my gyro. This was about 2 weeks after...

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[wolfy]

is a 'Rosco' a term or slang, name of designer/manufacturer or general type?

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That's not a "rosco" that looks more like a Peter Green built machine.
Rosco is a Gyroscopic Rotorcraft built by Ross symes in Broken Hill Australia 99% of gyro mustering done in Australia is with a Rosco.
There would not be another gyro manufacturer anywhere with anywhere near the accumalative hours as Rosco machines.

wolfy

 

[rancherman]

thanks for clearing that up!
I must've misread the description of this youtube.

For something that was so well-used, there isn't much info on the web..
ah.. I re read it a couple more times, maybe he was implying THIS one isn't as fancy schmancy as a Rosco?

 

[wolfy]

Unfortunately I don't have many pictures of my rosco but this is a video someone did of it.

wolfy

 

[rancherman]

For Sale- 130 hour Homebuilt 'RoscoMachine' 12,500A (about $7600 US)
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Why am I attracted to these suddenly?? LOL!! Maybe I need to make an Agriculture tour of Australia and
box one up for shipping!! Heh, I wonder what the boat ride home would cost LOL. I could ride home in the crate with one, right??
Hey, on a turbo'd open exaust like this one, does the turbo 'mellow' the exhaust note similar to a diesel? I run many straight pipe diesels that really arent' too bad on the 'drums.. Loud? *relative to what you are used to... but the turbo certainly mellows the eyeball flattening 'note'.

 

[Aerofoam]

IMO turbo beats muffler every time, and yes it will knock the volume down a lot....

 

[AirCommandPilot]

Unfortunately I don't have many pictures of my rosco but this is a video someone did of it.

wolfy

I love that landing at 55 seconds. So smooth.

 

[Resasi]

And a rather fine display of aeronautical ability it was too Wolfy. Nice to watch.

Bird was a pretty good stick on a Rosco as well...obviously chasing moos hones ones abilities...or you die/take up a less taxing occupation.

 

[Sv.grainne]

And a rather fine display of aeronautical ability it was too Wolfy. Nice to watch.

Bird was a pretty good stick on a Rosco as well...obviously chasing moos hones ones abilities...or you die/take up a less taxing occupation.

If you die that means you have made the move!

 

[gyroblazer]

is a 'Rosco' a term or slang, name of designer/manufacturer or general type?

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It's my old gyro and that's Kev Traeger, my instructor, playing with it.

I bought it over the phone and had it sent up on a truck from somewhere in melbourne. When I owned the gyro it had a bigger tail and more crap on it, you can see if you go back further on my youtube channel. It eventually ended up in kevs hands and kev pulled a lot of crap off it like electric trims, heavy transponder, rotor brakes and a whole bunch of other unneccessary features to reduce the weight.

Kev is a farmer and always drills into our heads "the K.I.S.S principle" .... "Keep it simple stupid". The simpler the aircraft the better (for weight, performance, maintenance, less shit to go wrong etc) and he did a great job of simplifying this machine, the new tail looks much neater than the big heavy thing that was there before, he changed the pump stick to a bell crank system and I flew it for a few circuits after recording him in this video and it handled great. Kev owns AK rotor blades which are popular here in Oz.

The gyro was built in 96, and had been pranged and rebuilt 2 or 3 times before I bought it. Scary for a non gyronaught to hear but we all know it just means the mast and critical components are not that old (you'd hope ) It's not built by rosco or peter green (it does look similar to peter green design aye), it was just built by a feller somewhere. At the expense of a little extra weight, i'd say its a slightly nicer design than the rosco because of that nice bend of the tail that allows a higher thrust line. It had big heavy 28ft patroney fiberglass rotors when I had it, which it flew good,and now has 26ft AK's and still flies good. As far as i know, he still has the gyro, if i had the money i'd buy it again, love that machine.