Hi,

Must be warmer weather up north now and everybody is out flying instead of writing messages, and I guess that's good.

I have been putting a lot of miles on the Wallis and discovered that it has one real bad characteristic. I don't know if it's because it a pusher or because it uses cyclic for control instead of flapping blades.

This gyro flies very flat in that it doesn't pitch up and down much and doesn't bank much in the turns. However, if while making a turn in a stiff wind and it rolls to the outside even it few degrees it will not recover unless it has a lot of altitude. The only way to recover is to turn back in the same direction that it rolled and that points the nose toward the ground. Without a lot of altitude it's going to crash. I've also notice that anytime, even flying straight into the wind if it rolls to the side even a few degrees, the cyclic has a hard time getting it rolled back to level flight. I've never experience that problem with a tractor type gyro with a flapping blade head.

Anybody have an thoughts as to weather it's caused by being a pusher or is the cyclic control the problem.

Phil

Phil,
I don't know darn thing about the Pusher Wallis..
I have been busy with Sun n Fun and then Top Gun came along and then I did start another DC Gyro but now I am in Woodruff, SC .. At the Joe Nall Fly in..
I did bring my Giant Whistler with me and will fly tomorrow thru Saturday..
How many of you guys are coming to Muncie in Sept.. Phih, Mickey ?

Jim

September is not likely for me with the kids school schedule, will look at anyway.
Phil,
Likely your problem is that you need to fly the rudder more.
Until that head has some stiffness it just won't have a lot of
control. Mine with cyclic pusher or tractor don't seem to have
the problem that the wallis does. But they both have
fairly rigid heads with lots of control.
Did you ever get your TREX parts?
mickey

Jim, I hope you are having a good time in SC. Must be nice to travel around the country. I wish the event was later in Muncie. We will be in Vermont until about the 2nd week of October. If it were a little later I could talk my wife into returning to Florida and travel through Muncie but I could never get her out of vermont in September.

Mickey, I have the TREX parts and assembled. I'm ready to start mounting it on the gyro. Should be interesting and I'll keep you posted.

Phil

Still all alone here in New Zealand! No other autogyro fliers within thousands of miles! Just rebuilt my OS 40 powered plane, now on it its third fuselage. Brief test flight (until the motor stopped) showed all OK, except I had to hold on `up` control all the time. Adjustments made & ready for another flight. Winter approaching here but I can fly all year round.
Colin Duthie

Phil,
Bill F has been wanting to have a Gyro meet in New England.. I think Maine.. Maybe we could plan one up that way for 2007.. Going be be one in Ill. in 2006 I hear. Then we could rent a 747 and go to see Colin in New Zealand and Mickey could fly his G3PO in the 747 to keep us entertained for 16 hours.

Jim in SC