RC AUTOGYRO TEETER HEAD SECRETS - LA 500 Autogyro is using

http://www.micro-flight.com - Secrets of an efficient and working 2 bladed teeter head for a differentially (DC) direct controlled RC Autogyro. Blade design plays an important role to successfully control a small and lightweight radio controlled autogyro model with an underslung teetering rotor head. Please excuse the misprint in the video as fully articulated. The tests were done with a standard teetering head.

Updated September 05, 2010.

Recently LA Heli has come out with an RC Pusher autogyro with a 2 blade standard teetering head, called the LA 500 autogyro.

I bought a kit to see how it compares to my original autogyro designs which I've been making on and off in the past 10 years along with some of my RC helicopter design projects.

Looks like LA has employed many of the secrets I am discussing in this video on the teetering head design.

The design of a 2 blade teetering autogyro head has been around since the first Bensen autogyro was made, and so there is nothing new about it. However, until recently there have been no commercially sold radio controlled autogyros employing a successful teeter head design. Most previous RC autogyro attempts of this type have been unsuccessful, due to the fact that a teeter head 2 bladed design is much harder to spin and keep that momentum - head speed going, required for easier liftoffs. Up until recently without the use of a pre-rotator and the details I am discuusing in this video about an efficient 2 blade head design, it was simply not possible for a model RC autogyro to work as the larger real autogyro counterparts do.

The LA 500 autogyro is a start in a commercially available RC autogyro but it not as easy to fly, as it looks. In general RC autogyros of a pusher design two bladed teeter head are difficult to fly and not intented for beginners.

I've been working on a model autogyro kit that hopefully will break the mold from traditional design and will be much easier for someone wishing to try an RC autogyro without the risks of crashing on the first attempts, as in many previous RC autogyro designs, in general.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• RC
• autogyro
• radio
• control
• models
• teeter
• head
• semi
• fully
• articulated
• rotor
• underlung
• rigid
• blade
• design
• stability

[MarioIArguello]

September 05, 2010 - Description updated - Interesting new Radio Controlled LA 500 autogyro employing some of the 2 bladed teeter head secrets mentioned in this video. Read more in the description.

[MarioIArguello]

Thank you and likewise have a healthy and happy New Year.

[RocKiteman]

Roger that! :~)°

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!

[MarioIArguello]

not to worry, it is under control.

[RocKiteman]

Your "wind tunnel" works great, as long someone inside the house doesn't adjust the thermostat.... 

;~)°