Jean Claude
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2009
- Messages
- 2,599
- Location
- Centre FRANCE
- Aircraft
- I piloted gliders C800, Bijave, C 310, airplanes Piper J3 , PA 28, Jodel D117, DR 220, Cessna 150, C
- Total Flight Time
- About 500 h (FW + ultra light)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSkf7bLjC4
Too heavy, in my opinion, for a gyrocopter.
But this provision could be very lightened if it were adapted to direct gasolin injection and ignition by sparks :
So, as light as a conventional 3-cylinders but the same torque that a 6-cylinders, the ratio power/weight would be twice.
http://www.wilksch.co.uk/images/WAM125-TechSheet-BB1.pdf
Too heavy, in my opinion, for a gyrocopter.
But this provision could be very lightened if it were adapted to direct gasolin injection and ignition by sparks :
So, as light as a conventional 3-cylinders but the same torque that a 6-cylinders, the ratio power/weight would be twice.
http://www.wilksch.co.uk/images/WAM125-TechSheet-BB1.pdf