That’s a very rugged simple bush basher there Wolfy. I like the big ‘tackys’ ( balloon tyres), they look as though they will let you land pretty well anywhere in the bush.
It reminds me a bit of the S African Trojan/Vlooi by Wagtail, a rough tough outback go anywhere gyro. Needle ball and airspeed simplicity so very little to go wrong. Certainly got poke there, and that fuel tank looks as though you’ll have a reasonable endurance/range. What capacity?
On first glance I wondered about the height of the oil reservoir, I know that the 912 they caution placing it too high in case of trickle through of clearances in the bearings when left for long periods, but this might not apply to the 914?
Interesting prop, have seen them, don't recollect the name. What diameter?
What rotors are you going to put on her? I think you mentioned there is an Aussi manufacturer, Petrony’s?? Couldn’t find out anything about them. What diameter? I guess she will weigh a bit.
Good to see what you have been working on.
Cheers leigh it is my new basher mate, simple, tough, ruff as guts and just slapped together mainly from parts I had laying around quickly to get back into gyro's.
I mainly wanted a large nose wheel because it's always the nose wheel to give trouble first in soft ground.
The fuel tanks are actually only very small about 40L from both tanks.
The oil tank is about right, the oil level needs to be between prop shaft center and 400mm below prop shaft center. Mine's at 150mm below.
Most tanks are mounted dangerously to low.
It's a saber style prop from "Aero Prop" about 71" diameter.
Yeah it's going to be heavier then I would have liked, so will be going with 27.5 to 28.5' rotors. I have some Advanced Kinetics rotors that I will cut down to size once I decide a size. AK's are the only locally available blade left, they are an extrusion.
wolfy
