Greg Mitchell
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 8, 2004
- Messages
- 1,959
- Location
- Australia
- Aircraft
- Butterfly Monarch 582
- Total Flight Time
- 200 hrs
TimEdward,
This gyro can takeoff in such short distances because it has a very strong prerotator that can spin the blades up to or near flying speed. It can not hover.
Tim
Noted and thanks ! I went throught the Butterfly's website, but the Aurora page is not ready to be visited.
Edward.
This video impressed me!I wonder why this machine can fly in so short distance? in an other video at youtobe(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwmj0H5CVk&NR=1) that gyroplane looks like flying in hovering. did it really hover?
G'day Tim
the more question:
In order to spin the rotor to get the max rotation speed at the shortest time, the pilot need to switch the engine throttle to max,and at this time the propeller's rotation speed should be at max level,that means the thrust is at max, so how to keep the gyro steady at there, not run foward? Using brake of the wheel? if does, does the gyro's forward speed reach at the min fly speed from the pilot loop the brake to jump within 5 second?
thanks
Ed.
G'day Tim
the more question:
In order to spin the rotor to get the max rotation speed at the shortest time, the pilot need to switch the engine throttle to max,and at this time the propeller's rotation speed should be at max level,that means the thrust is at max, so how to keep the gyro steady at there, not run foward? Using brake of the wheel? if does, does the gyro's forward speed reach at the min fly speed from the pilot loop the brake to jump within 5 second?
thanks
Ed.