And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Those wings proved to be a bad engineering decision. They took weight off the rotors, and if the rotors get to slow you don't get that RPM back
Gyrocopters have a problem called buntover. It is 100 % fatal. If you get into gyros get into late 20th century very tall gyros. I should not take a Bensen as a gift.
Autogyros, although an aviation dead end, are still pretty cool. I bet The Daily Planet, in Metropolis, had a red and blue one!
ReplyDeletePitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro, which can be seen at the Ford Museum - https://www.skytamer.com/Pitcairn_PCA-2.html
ReplyDeleteLikewise you can still listen to WWJ (the radio station shown on the the autogiro) at AM 950 kHz in Detroit
Those wings proved to be a bad engineering decision. They took weight off the rotors, and if the rotors get to slow you don't get that RPM back
ReplyDeleteGyrocopters have a problem called buntover. It is 100 % fatal. If you get into gyros get into late 20th century very tall gyros. I should not take a Bensen as a gift.