Has anyone ever looked into gyrocopters? I mean they are kind of cheap <$10K and seem to be pretty kick ass.
I want to check them out more, as to what are the flying limitations, etc.
Has anyone ever tinkered with these guys at all?
This was spawned by a discussion at work about how cool it would be to fly a chopper to work daily.
Is that a missile on the side of that thing?!
If I lived in the country I’d be all over something like that, or an ultralight…
^^^ I thought the same thing, lol. I’d definitly want missles on mine.
really? no one knows where that pic is from? they used these things in a james bond film.
edit:
in on one.
Yeah, that’s from You Only Live Twice!
Missiles make that thing pure win. If someone else is flying to work and he cuts you off, you can blow him the fuck out of the air.
Exactly! I was thinking “damn, I could fit one of these in my garage roll it into the street and fly to work!” LoL
From what I see you need about 100 feet to take off, and ~20 feet to land. This is pretty solid, used ones (~2003s with about 200 hours) can go for ~5-6K.
Not a Gyro, but packs up nicely… into a torpedo:
I see this thread going south very quickly…har har har
Why get one of those when you can have the Air Car !!!11!
Little Nellie!
http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11653
Be very wary of someone dumping a $5K AG on the market - it may not be FAA certifiable since the grace period for homebuilts constructed before the new classification system was put into place has lapsed.
Ugh but it seems that if you buy a kit and build 51% of it you can get it in under home made correct?