Autogyro beats Helicopter for small VTOL Missions dynmicpara

If you are broke, you don't fly...and don't ASS U ME just because you are on the tax payer's gravy train that you can force overly complex helicopters to fly if they are being rebuilt. The dirty secret of helicopters is they HAVE TO BE REBUILT after x amount of hours or else they crash and burn. A simple fixed-wing aircraft only needs its engine rebuilt after many, many hours of use. Helicopters are constantly falling apart as you use them. There is a better way to get vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities: THE AUTOGYRO. The same simple engine that spins a prop that pushes a fixed-wing plane forward through the air, instead spins simple rotors overhead. Voila! No costly maintenance and rebuilding, a rotary-wing "grasshopper" albeit not as fast as a fixed-wing STOL plane could be, but it has VTOL for those tight landing and take-off situations when you need it. The FAA-certified autogyro shown in the video not only moves on the ground by a small trailer, it compacts to fit inside a 20-foot ISO shipping container "BATTLEBOX" for air/land/sea transport anywhere in the world and to act as its hanger and troop living area. The autogyro would make an excellent "Killer Bee" for military observation/attack capabilities ORGANIC to ground maneuver units from their "hip pocket" not a bunch of pampered "fly boys" and multi-million-dollar fighter-bombers requiring 10, 000 foot paved runways miles and miles away at some comfy air base eating ice cream while you are getting creamed by the enemy.

http://www.combatreform2.com/killerbees.htm

Cierva was right!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbalOh4smnM

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[THENAGANTMAN]

THE PILOT IN THIS VIDEO WAS JOHN POTTER, THIS WAS THE 18-A BUILT IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY BY FARRINGTON AIRCRAFT. OWNED BY DON FARRINGTON, THE COMPANY WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 2001 AFTER DON DIED FOLLOWING AN ACCIDENT AT THE LAKELAND FLORIDA AIRSHOW. I WAS DONS CHIEF PILOT, IT WAS AN INTERESTING AND CHALLENGING POSITION. I WAS SORRY TO SEE IT END...

[dynmicpara]

@THENAGANTMAN Heliplane LLC will make 18As once their finances are secured by other projects. Nothing is over until its over!

[YaoiMastah]

Love that 80s background music :D

Too bad most of it is outdated.. For inspecting powerlines, traffic jams and the likes we use (thanks to them Chinese) much cheaper UAV's.

[dynmicpara]

@YaoiMastah UAVs are not cheaper when they CRASH OFTEN.

[2koreahawaii]

after over 22,890 hrs of flight on fixed wing and rotor wing, one of these models nearly killed me due to heavy porpise. i dont recommend it to no company what so ever, if you want to go cheap, get yourself a robinson heli.

[dynmicpara]

@2koreahawaii Robinson helos still need their parts to be constantly rebuilt. Not cheap. The point of this video is to develop a MILITARY autogyro that is FAST and AFFORDABLE.

[richietacata]

feels like im watching an infomercial.

[cpnstav]

I would be interested in one of these would take off from the Fly on a boat

[lmogden1]

great video great autogyro are there any in the uk i want to have a flight in one i got the bug last year after seeing little nellie being flown as in the james bond film by a guy in norfolk called ken wallace i didnt realise how simple a concept it was someone told me years ago it was like a helicopter but with a rear prop when ken explained i saw the light if you can respond to me please do

[aviationfreakv3]

@superesonator This bothered me a lot too, and I did some digging around and found that there was a "hydraulic clutch that allowed for the main propeller to connect by gears to the large rotor temporarily, bringing the main rotor up to speed, but then was immediately released for the remainder of flight." ;) hope this helps.

[MillyVanillification]

@Theriomalstrom The rotor can be started by pressurized air from nozzles at the wing tips I think.

[Theriomalstrom]

Are they pre-spinning the rotor for short takeoffs? They don't show any take off roll at all.

[Dcrail01]

@THENAGANTMAN What happened? seems like a good product. just because of one crash it ended? I do think it would be a nice RC if not full size model. Thanks for sharing. PS is this a mix with a gyro copter?

[Kishgofu]

@THENAGANTMAN CAPS LOCK IT'S CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.

[madichelp0]

I was just wondering, if the rotor blades was half the length, but there was 4 instead, would it work? Or do they have to be as long as they all are right now?

[neuralwarp]

@2koreahawaii It always seems to be ex-aeroplane pilots and ex-airforce pilots who kill themselves with porpoising. If you learn gyros ab initio you would be fine.