Towed car copter - GIF

[Jon]

Towed car copter.




Previously:

Casting a giant propellor GIF
Propeller feathering - GIF
Cruise ship propellers destroy marina - GIF

[Frank S]

That ended pretty much as expected. Anyone who has ever flown a small plane with tricycle landing gear knows you never try an land on the single wheel. always the wing or big wheels first, nose or tail wheel it doesn't matter.

[bruce.desertrat]

This is also why real gyrocopters have rudders...so they can , you know , steer.

[Frank S]

This is also why real gyrocopters have rudders...so they can , you know , steer.

Real gyrocopters also have their own power to push them the air flow is also directed by the rudder. Additionally they may look like a simple air boat without the boat with a rotor blade attached with very little engineering required. There is a significant amount of engineering involved in constructing one. Lightweight materials optimized for strength versus weight center of gravity power to propel it through the air the cord and length of the rotor to give the best amount of lift while relying on the the air flow to maintain rotor tip speed Typically the propeller pushes the gyro but there are some that use the tractor method like most fixed wing. another thing is the way the rotor is controlled the similarity between a gyro and a helicopter is only the fact that it has long blades with the exception of the ones that have a transmission and clutch to start the rotor spinning will have a collective to reduce the rotor pitch for that purpose Often times the cyclic only physically tilts the rotor spindle changing the attack pitch angle for lift Gyrocopters or autogyros as they are more communally know as have been around since before the actual helicopter