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Old 12-30-2005 | 07:08 PM
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mnowell129
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Default RE: Simple Gyro Building Basics Please

It never will. Move the nozzle down and aim it up a few degrees and then it
will move forward. The only thing you have to do to keep the blade turning is
have the total resulting airflow below the plane that is square to the rotor disk.
This is accomplished by tilting the whole thing backwards.

All you are trying to get is some force in any direction but straight downwind,
in your nozzle example if you set the airfoil to 10 degrees, you get lift at 100 degrees.
Now tilt the whole picture 15 degrees down and the airfoil (now at -5 degrees with respect
to the GROUND but at +10 degrees with respect to the WIND) will be producing lift at 85 degrees,
and will thus move forward with respect to the ground.

mickey

P.S. this is exactly why a glider (sailplane) goes forward, not backwards.