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I was fascinated by autogyros for a long time. After much of reading in internet forums it seemed to me not so difficult to build one. Little i knew.. :-). I ignored every good advice and started my own build. Well, it flew, but showed horrible flight behaviour. Was too heavy, had no steerable rudder, c/g to far afterwards, the list of errors was long. After a serious crash on my paved runway i was ready for something sensefull. :-)
Slopter is a kit from Flemotec. This cute little autogyro is made from Depron. I failed to build good rotors from this material and used balsa for the rotor instead. After adding a little bit of weight to the nose-section and more downthrust to the prop Slopter was my first good flying autogyro.
My third autogyro is the G3PO from Mickey Nowell. This is a fantastic design using parts of a helicopter
head. Flying G3PO requires intermeditiate to expert skills omn the sticks. I needed much help and had to add an additional stab
and more lateral area to the fuse for my first flights. Read the long and winding story in a thread at rcgroups:
G3PO for dummies.
Meanwhile i have flown and crashed my G3PO so often, that it was time to replace it with G3PO-b. You find pictures of G3PO-b at the end
of the above linked thread.
Video: G3PO,8MB
My fourth autogyro is a design by Sebastian Hampf and built after his downloadable plans: FMT-Plan Whopper The accompanying article was in the german mag FMT in june 2006. This one has two rotors and is very easy to control. During maiden on 2006-06-24 Whopper got chased by a dog. Here's a small video, please excuse poor quality.
This one is based on a GWS Slowstick. Conversion from plane to autogyro and back lasts just a minute. Weight is around 800 gramm, so it requires a little bit of wind to fly.
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