RC Fairey Rotodyne gyroplane Crash

[Taildragger2411]

Well done to that pilot ,omg! that modell was so unstable .

[TheRattleSnake3145]

@biggayal1992

Its not a helicopter, ita a Gyroplane, it says so in the video title

[geekfish]

My god the blades are bending up causing it ot pitch..LMAO.... Grat build..:) Great piloting....Seriously...:)

[ANIKES]

3D+3WD RotoDyne !!!!

great !!

[Gruntol5]

I praise your efforts, but it looks to be the most unstable aircraft of all time!

[BlackTalon53]

credits for the attempt and the hours spent in the basement!

My guess is the damping surfaces of rudder and elevator must be made much bigger than scale. Plus, add some gyros to keep it stabilized better

[Olhado256]

Um... did you actually research how the original Rotodyne worked? Wasn't it supposed to take off vertically?

[tquix94]

FAIL!...

[acharad]

Original rotodyne wasn't an Autogyro, It was a Tipjet helicopter

[safelandings]

It was an Autogyro! tip jets were only used to land and take off vertically. watch the real footage and see how the rotors are tipped back in forward flight.

[obliviousfafnir01]

@acharad It was a cross-over. The tip-jets were deactivated during normal flight, making it the world's largest autogyro at the time.

[GeezerRay]

"It does not fly, so much as plummet." - Monty Python

[cmreel]

Always nice to see rc pilots, with only the slightest idea of how a plane flies, but trying to build something that looks scale and therefor "should" fly.

[RoboTekno]

gotta give them some credit though. before the first maned flights, we looked to the birds and other animals for inspiration :D

[joseico90]

1:29 and 2:14 loads of excessive blade flapping!

[joseico90]

look at 1:29 those blades are flexing up way too much

[joseico90]

there is way too much blade flapping there!

[whizbang47]

Stick with it!

[xoio]

Centre of gravity issues, combined with not properly modelling the purpose of the GYRO.

Its' a helicopter primarliy.. where the stub wings are only really useful at cruise speed.

The gyro needs to be spun up first somehow to generate primary lift control.

Nice model though ... or was..

[Fraleth]

The purpose of the Rotodyne design is defeated as you attempted a running take off. The forward facing engines are suppose to generate air pressure running along pipes that lead through the individual rotor blades. Air is then released at the rotor tips, and spinning it, to help it lift vertically.

[mjok2004]

It could fly on just the wings get rid of the blades or the wings

[eyeeye1]

Outstanding pilot skill's!Slowmo it look like a lead lag problem/not enough rotor blades. I still cant believe you landed that.

[jasona9393]

I am SO chuffed someone made a model of this! As a child, my Dad made successful control-line version of it and got to have a look around the full-size as a result! Don't give up on this, get it flying! More rotor speed needed at take-off, I think. Even in straight and level flight, the wings on the full-size only accounted for half the lift, the rest still came from the rotor. How about putting some Jetex on the tips just to spin them up for take-off? That'd look cool and be very realistic too!

[yeogav]

that thing is leathal. Bin bag job

[cassidy0998]

haha looks cool but needs to be stronger. Looked like there was lots of flexing, especially with the rotor blades. There are some really good helicopter blades out now that might work for that.

[EIGYRO]

Definitely tail-heavy.

Looked like the wing was rocking from one

tip-stall to the other.

Needs a prerotator, the rotor is way too

slow at takeoff.

With 2 blades, I doubt if the rotor was

generating useful lift.

Interesting though, thanks.

P.S I fly full-size gyros and used to

fly RC F/W.

[CalDayton]

it looks like it needs more weight in the nose. in the video it flies at a very high angle of attack, which is probably why it's destabilizing... no air flow over the control surfaces. Neat project, though... hope it flies again.

[autogyrofreak]

It's a very nice project. Seems there is a lot of coning. Maybe that is what causes the instability.

Is it flying ok now?