RE: Autogyro Conversion Advice
Dale
Thank you for having this years event. It was a pleasure to fly at your wonderful site and I hope to do so again someday.
Now on with the thread.
I have to say at this point fellas that airplane fuselages are not really set up for gyro operation.
Dale and I had to make several changes in hang angle, down thrust, chop the vert stab off, adjust the aft rotor tilt etc.
All of these changes were necessary for this great flyin model to fly. This sort of stuff is easy for an experienced gyro flyer to do but for the novice flyer it would have been impossible to do alone.
Dale should be congratulated for his efforts in creating a very nice, attractive and good flying model.
And BTW none of this was possible without the heckling of the peanut gallery that stood by and egged us on...
Warmest Regards to All.
Rick Anderson