2017年12月9日 · Aviation statistics show gyrocopters to be more dangerous than most recreational aircraft. An Australian Transport Safety Bureau report on accidents between 2004 and 2013 found half of all gyrocopter accidents to be fatal, with the aircraft responsible for the worst fatality rate per hours flown.

2016年2月29日 · The gyrocopter is cheap, versatile, and as easy to operate as an off-road motorcycle. What can it be used for? For everyone's daily ride to work. The owner of Quobba Station in Western Australia owns a gyrocopter and uses it to patrol his land, and to muster the sheep and goats when time comes to sell them.

2019年2月11日 · In the US, Gyroplane and Helicopter are class ratings within the Rotorcraft category. FAR 61.63(c) specifies that the addition of a class rating does not require any specific amount of flight training time, and no more total experience than would be required for the gyroplane rating you already have, so the question is moot.

2023年1月21日 · Typically Autogyros experiencing "negative Gs" will crash. I wonder if an Autogyro with wings would work as a fail safe for this situation? Would it allow the pilot to recover assuming this

Look at rc twin rotor gyros. They perform quite well. Instead of having articulated blades they are fixed and counter rotating at the end of opposing booms .The rotors are shorter and spin much faster on ground roll for takeoff.

2024年5月6日 · Why aren't there any larger autogiros? Because you would basically have a machine with the same limitations of a helicopter (in terms of speed and maintenance) but, since the rotor of an autogyro produces only lift, you'd need to add one (or more) propeller for forward propulsion, a tailplane for stability and controllability and a wing to offload the rotor at higher …

2017年9月26日 · When a autogyro/gyrocopter is in a horizontal steady flight the rotor should be able to provide enough thrust using the auto rotation principle if the horizontal speed can be regulated by the vertical propeller. I was wondering how the amount of thrust provided by the main rotor of a autogyro during auto rotation can be calculated.

2016年6月1日 · One has to look at the total energy requirement of the gyrocopter. In this instance it is a 80 kW powerplant. A human power plant would be incapable of a sustained output of more than 1kW, therefore I would conclude that the impact of augmented human sourced power would be less than 1% and therefore insignificant.

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2021年12月15日 · The idea would be to take advantage of this jet of air generated by the engines to partially increase the speed of rotation of the rotors, since in the case of a Gyrocopter/Autogyro, they need the aircraft to move in a direction to be able to glide (of course, there are types of Autogyros that are connected to the engine).