ORIGINAL: JoelW

What do you think Mickey? If a helicopter with blades that are not flat bottomed as our autogyros are can autorotate to a safe landing, why couldn't an autogyro with a helicopter rotor, swashplate, stalilizer bar etc be set up so that as the blades reverse their pitch via the collective control as the gyro goes inverted? Just a thought. Maybe Mickey could give it some thought and make it work. His G3P0 has a helicopter rotor head that seems to work fine. I don't know enough about standard helicopter hardware but it seems that if the collective control would allow enough pitch change in both directions it's possible to give it a try.

am I crazy?
Joel