I tried flying my Spacewalker again the othe day in the dead calm. I had the tilt back angle set at about 3*, I think I'll change it to about 8* It looked like it was just about to lift when I ran out of runway, which BTW was over a hill almost out of sight, just the rotor visible and tore the landing gear out. I'm taking this opportunity to change to wider track landing gear. The old set was 16" wide, the new set is 24" wide and slightly taller. Bigger wheels also may help so I put on 4.5" up from 4.0", the new ones are Dave Brown Lites.

Now the question that's bothered me for a while now. Why does everyone claim you need a breeze to takeoff?

In Florida I saw Phil takeoff down wind with his twin rotor, and on my second attempt at taking off the cross wind got me and turned the gyro downwind, before I could throttle back I and one other guy thought it had taken off.