Thanks for interest to the project!
I will begin the project of autogyro since June-July (after I will complete Sopwith
Camel 1/4), and by this time I assemble the various information on a design of
details and methods of prerotation of a rotor.
While I tend to a rotor design here at this autogyro.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_7213200/tm.htm
Also I was issued with rotor blades. They will be self-made and length 1000 mm (3,28 ft).
The profile is a NACA 8-H-12. Anyway to me it was advised by one of our gurus in autogyro.
Total diameter of a rotor turns out 2150 mm that at take-off weight in 5 kg (11 lb, but I
think will be a little smaller) will give loading on a rotor in 12g/dm2 (~4 oz/sq. feet)
that is comprehensible as me the aforementioned guru has prompted.
Still not clear while the moment with blades - what to choose a blade chord?
While the parity 8:1 or 9:1 is supposed that will give a chord of 125(~10 in) mm or 115.
The rudder will be on the area big, and on appearance of the classical scheme,
here I have already understood that experiments not to spend better
Rotor details will be made of aluminium.
While I have two not clear moments:
- What servos to establish on a rotor drive gear? While I assume on 33 kg effort Turnigy S8166M Servo.
- How to do rotor prerotation? While two variants: the electromotor 480 classes and a toothed
belt from the electrotool (as on the aforementioned reference) or prorotation at the expense of a
deviation of an air flow from the engine upwards on a rotor.
Blades I will make of a beech and balsa. From a beech will be first 1/3 of chord of the blade
and a root part, and from balsa the others 2/3 chords of the blade and from above it will be
covered by fiber glass. The beechen part will be made most likely on CNC.
I hope by August-September it to realise!