Almost an hour of this unusual three-seat Russian V-tailed gyroplane shooting landings & doing takeoffs. Posted last October, 2023 on youtube. Link is below.
At one point, the pilot takes off & shows both hands off the cyclic (0:50:05) as he flies by the camera. Most of his landings are very smooth. I was impressed w/ the power available from the unknown engine, as well as the very capable prerotator that spins the rotors to such a high amount of r-rpms prior to taking off.
Towards the end of the video, a shirtless man catches a ride (0:52:41) in the third seat to back-taxy to the other end of the airstrip. The shirtless man is shown patting up the rotors (0:53:12) b/4 the pilot then does several runs back & forth on the runway to build up the rotor speed.
Appears to fly nose-high in all flight modes. A second person is seated behind the pilot's right side in most shots. There are a few scenes when he is flying solo.
Appears to have an engine that has oodles of power (two-up), a hydraulic prerotator, unknown rotorblades and a large prop (possibly well over 6' in diameter). No horizontal stab back w/ the V-tail, but has something similar to the Duane Hunn "stabilatator" up high behind the mast, just below the rotors, similar to what RAF gyros eventually went to.
Things go smoothly until about 0:58:25, when, from a far-off distance from the videographer, pieces are flung off the machine in flight, both to the left & to the right. Hard to tell if it was a wire strike or maybe have been the prop & reduction gear setup deciding they wanted to go elsewhere. Or, could the balloon shown in that area been tethered?
The gyroplane suddenly experienced a severe, sharp yaw to port & then rapidly descends w/ the nose yawed to the left as it disappears from view prior to hitting the ground. The rotors appear to be functioning & @ speed during that descent.
The final seconds of the video show the gyro on the ground, upright, w/ the rotors having acquired the usual bends & wrinkles from ground contact @ speed. It is a dark section of the final frames, but it looks like the massive prop is missing.
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An HONEST gyroplane kit manufacturer takes their customer's money & delivers the product that was paid for.
A DISHONEST, well-known, gyroplane kit manufacturer (located in the United States) takes his customer's money for a two-place SxS gyroplane & then delivers neither the product nor refunds the money to his customers, despite them waiting YEARS for him to deliver either one or the other.
At one point, the pilot takes off & shows both hands off the cyclic (0:50:05) as he flies by the camera. Most of his landings are very smooth. I was impressed w/ the power available from the unknown engine, as well as the very capable prerotator that spins the rotors to such a high amount of r-rpms prior to taking off.
Towards the end of the video, a shirtless man catches a ride (0:52:41) in the third seat to back-taxy to the other end of the airstrip. The shirtless man is shown patting up the rotors (0:53:12) b/4 the pilot then does several runs back & forth on the runway to build up the rotor speed.
Appears to fly nose-high in all flight modes. A second person is seated behind the pilot's right side in most shots. There are a few scenes when he is flying solo.
Appears to have an engine that has oodles of power (two-up), a hydraulic prerotator, unknown rotorblades and a large prop (possibly well over 6' in diameter). No horizontal stab back w/ the V-tail, but has something similar to the Duane Hunn "stabilatator" up high behind the mast, just below the rotors, similar to what RAF gyros eventually went to.
Things go smoothly until about 0:58:25, when, from a far-off distance from the videographer, pieces are flung off the machine in flight, both to the left & to the right. Hard to tell if it was a wire strike or maybe have been the prop & reduction gear setup deciding they wanted to go elsewhere. Or, could the balloon shown in that area been tethered?
The gyroplane suddenly experienced a severe, sharp yaw to port & then rapidly descends w/ the nose yawed to the left as it disappears from view prior to hitting the ground. The rotors appear to be functioning & @ speed during that descent.
The final seconds of the video show the gyro on the ground, upright, w/ the rotors having acquired the usual bends & wrinkles from ground contact @ speed. It is a dark section of the final frames, but it looks like the massive prop is missing.
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An HONEST gyroplane kit manufacturer takes their customer's money & delivers the product that was paid for.
A DISHONEST, well-known, gyroplane kit manufacturer (located in the United States) takes his customer's money for a two-place SxS gyroplane & then delivers neither the product nor refunds the money to his customers, despite them waiting YEARS for him to deliver either one or the other.
