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- Joined
- Jun 13, 2005
- Messages
- 4,384
- Location
- miami,oklahoma
- Aircraft
- Ercoupe and Cessna 150, 152, 172, 140, Aeronca,7ac, Citabria,Chief,Piper PA11,PA12
- Total Flight Time
- 215
HI Murray
One of the great pioneers in gyro's, Mr. Jay Carter Sr. related a story to me about his early experiences in experimenting with a open frame tractor style gyro.
Seems like he was unable to get the early model to fly because it seemed under powered, so he put a bigger engine on it and it seems to even be worse. As it turnes out he was to discover that by building a small reasonable fairing from the engine back to the cockpit area that would get the prop blast off of him then things worked fine.
It seems that his body was acting as a reverse thuster, the more power applied the less thrust!!!!!!!
Tony
One of the great pioneers in gyro's, Mr. Jay Carter Sr. related a story to me about his early experiences in experimenting with a open frame tractor style gyro.
Seems like he was unable to get the early model to fly because it seemed under powered, so he put a bigger engine on it and it seems to even be worse. As it turnes out he was to discover that by building a small reasonable fairing from the engine back to the cockpit area that would get the prop blast off of him then things worked fine.
It seems that his body was acting as a reverse thuster, the more power applied the less thrust!!!!!!!
Tony