Airventure 2009: Pitcairn PA-18 Autogyro Flight

[Silke1207]

cool landing

[FlyinRyans35]

Thanks for sharing. This was cool. What a lucky pilot to have the privilage to fly one of those. It's one of my dreams to atleast be at the control of an autogiro someday.

[Samjapa]

Nice landing!

Beautiful aircraft.

[synman95]

thats my uncles plane he is the one starting it

[adooma1984]

A wonderful peice of rotorcraft history!

[Rocknranchman]

Wow! I was not able to go to Oshkosh but thru this very excellent video I feel like I was transformed there! I have always wanted to see and know how an Autogyro would fly. I watched a model once but it was not very "under contol- probably the r/c pilot" but this aircraft can fly nice!

Thank you for sharing this with us! And the sound is so neat!

[terraverte]

slick is right!

bldeagle- can you tell us about what it's like to fly the autogyro?

thanks!

[bldeagle]

Aero New Network did an interview about flying it that is also on youtube

[bldeagle]

It's a Kinner R-55, same as on a Ryan PT-22. The original engine was a slightly different model, a Kinner R-5, which are practically non-existant, but very very similar. Thanks for posting the video, and glad we got to fly it so people could see it go. It is supposed to fly again at Oshkosh Pioneer Field August 29 and 30. Next year we'd like to do a European tour with it, if we can find sponsors.

[slickhutto]

Awesome, thanks a lot for the correction! Don't want any misinformation for this bird! Thanks also for flying her at Oshkosh! It was magnificent.

[CR4ZYHOR5E]

Thanks for posting, I missed this and the Comet when they flew.

[seatfool]

Hey man thanks for putting this up. I always wondered how these damned things worked. Did it have a Kinner K5 or an R56?

[slickhutto]

You're very welcome! It was a Kinner K/R-5...not sure which version "K" or "R".