poor first flight ?
01-10-2005 | 07:51 PM
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poor first flight ?
anyones help , my first attemp,I tried to ROG maybe 3mph wind and almost but it just didn't lift, so I waited for some wind the next day to perform a hand launch at a 10mph wind and it went up and to the side and down ,the wheels broke and the front prop but the rotor had no damage, it seems it didn't have enough power or enough lift? I really felt better with the ROG, should I put a bigger motor and battery ,more weight not good, or make the blades wider at the trailing edge.
02-08-2005 | 09:09 PM
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RE: poor first flight ?
Hello,
I am new to gyros but I had successful first flight with my autogyro a few days agao.
Check out www.autogyro.com and make sure your disk and blade loadings are good for the weight and size of the gyro. It could also be your airfoil and or angle of incidence is to negative.
Mine was an ROG take off, hand launching my .40 sized gyro seems very insane to me. You have to make sure your blades are running in full auto rotation, you should be able to hear and see when it happens. From what I know you cant force the gyro off the ground, a 3 second +/- throttle transition and a 5 second +/- wait to get the tail flying (tail dragger) from pre spin and model release maid for a successful flight.
Hope you can get it flying
SG
I am new to gyros but I had successful first flight with my autogyro a few days agao.
Check out www.autogyro.com and make sure your disk and blade loadings are good for the weight and size of the gyro. It could also be your airfoil and or angle of incidence is to negative.
Mine was an ROG take off, hand launching my .40 sized gyro seems very insane to me. You have to make sure your blades are running in full auto rotation, you should be able to hear and see when it happens. From what I know you cant force the gyro off the ground, a 3 second +/- throttle transition and a 5 second +/- wait to get the tail flying (tail dragger) from pre spin and model release maid for a successful flight.
Hope you can get it flying
SG
02-08-2005 | 11:56 PM
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RE: poor first flight ?
thanks, I put a geardrive with wider blades now I need some wind
ORIGINAL: rcairplanenut
Hello,
I am new to gyros but I had successful first flight with my autogyro a few days agao.
Check out www.autogyro.com and make sure your disk and blade loadings are good for the weight and size of the gyro. It could also be your airfoil and or angle of incidence is to negative.
Mine was an ROG take off, hand launching my .40 sized gyro seems very insane to me. You have to make sure your blades are running in full auto rotation, you should be able to hear and see when it happens. From what I know you cant force the gyro off the ground, a 3 second +/- throttle transition and a 5 second +/- wait to get the tail flying (tail dragger) from pre spin and model release maid for a successful flight.
Hope you can get it flying
SG
Hello,
I am new to gyros but I had successful first flight with my autogyro a few days agao.
Check out www.autogyro.com and make sure your disk and blade loadings are good for the weight and size of the gyro. It could also be your airfoil and or angle of incidence is to negative.
Mine was an ROG take off, hand launching my .40 sized gyro seems very insane to me. You have to make sure your blades are running in full auto rotation, you should be able to hear and see when it happens. From what I know you cant force the gyro off the ground, a 3 second +/- throttle transition and a 5 second +/- wait to get the tail flying (tail dragger) from pre spin and model release maid for a successful flight.
Hope you can get it flying
SG
