Hi Jim, yes, I have always been fascinated by them and have flown some of the full scale ones as well including one of the McCulloughs that was at our local airport. I have aso flown a 150 hp Lycoming autogyra and have done many articles about them for the magazines that I worked with. I also covered in depth the attempts by several companies in the past 5 years to bring it back, it will never happen, they are wasting their money in my opinion.

A giant scale autogyro is light years ahead in visual impact over the small helicopters when it comes to crowd reaction. I haven't built one in many years but I am headed that way in the near future, just deciding which one to start with. Norm