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Who says a Gyro can't hover or fly backwards?

Postby Dre'man » Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:08 am

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Postby Cloud Warrior » Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:32 am

Pretty impressive and it looked very stable as well. What kind of head wind do you think he had to be able to do that?
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Postby Dre'man » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:29 am

Not sure of headwind, mayb the Gyronauts can assist here. Would have been interesting to see what happens if the wind stopped.
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Postby Gyronaut » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:44 pm

one-up and half tanks at 500ft amsl I fly straight and level at 30mph easily. That means that a 30mph IAS will result in a hover. Any more and you will be able to fly backwards too.

Happens quite often (here in the Cape) that I am able to maintain a hover for as long as I like. In fact, over Ceres mountains once I was showing an IAS of 85mph and a ground speed of 20mph. Could fly backwards at 35mph in that but I confess I got outta there ASAP.
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Postby The Agent » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:54 am

A mother of a head wind for sure.
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Postby skydiver » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:01 am

why can gyros fly in such strong conditions?
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Postby Henni » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:33 am

Must be the high loading on the disc - compare blade size with aircraft wing size. A high wing loading is always preferred in turbulant conditions.
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Postby DieselFan » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:07 pm

I posted a link here a while back about this russian gyro pilot, he was doing the sideways stuff an all without a wind and a homebuild nogal...ex military pilot. Was BEST gyro vid I've seen
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