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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I always wanted an autogyro.


77 posted on 08/04/2026 8:56:59 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: MayflowerMadam

My brother in Christ, you want a gyrodyne not the other kind.

Zero length take offs and landings

https://vimeo.com/228438574?fl=pl&fe=cm

Your rotor is 100% spun up before you even move so stall is impossible, you are already in autorotation the second you leave the ground again zero dead mans corner.

They quote its the only vtol they would put their grandmother in.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/skyworks-aeronautics-evtol-gyrodyne/

This one uses variable pitch props to do full hovering one prop reverses so it becomes the anti torque while in hover.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/jaunt-air-mobility-evtol-gyrodyne-air-taxi/


82 posted on 08/04/2026 9:02:43 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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