Yeah! Emilio is the man who really cracked it for D/C single rotors. He Da Man!
Dunno if the urge will take me or not. I usually get it about every four years!
(Yeah, that too!
) Gone all 3D mad at the moment so it could be a while...
Have you seen some of the modern kit built full size gyro's? Lovely wingless Piper Cub replicas except with a rotor! Superb. Google for "autogyro" and see what you get.
People need to see them flying to get interested. One guy at our field was really interested in my Simple G. A few weeks ago he turned up with a twin rotor job built from a plan, can't remember its name, pretty unique looking thing though. Anyhows, on his first flight he shed a rotor blade and had to dump it. It survived okay and the guy was pretty chuffed that it was flying okay up until a blade fell off. So he'll be back. One more convert!
Yeah, it needs a big meet with lots of coverage in the modelling press to get people started.
Old Warden in Bedfordshire would be a nice venue. There's the museum to look at too.
I'll never forgive myself for deleting that folder too. Some pix were sent by various gyronuts over the years and I treasured them. I also deleted my entire collection of Lita Ford mp3's too. Took me ages to collect them. Oh well...