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Who says a Gyro can't hover or fly backwards?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:08 am
by Dre'man
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:32 am
by Cloud Warrior
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?
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:29 am
by Dre'man
Not sure of headwind, mayb the Gyronauts can assist here. Would have been interesting to see what happens if the wind stopped.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:44 pm
by Gyronaut
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:54 am
by The Agent
A mother of a head wind for sure.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:01 am
by skydiver
why can gyros fly in such strong conditions?
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:33 am
by Henni
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:07 pm
by DieselFan
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