Professor: Get your son up to the monitor… Here are some more pictures I just took yesterday. I was chasing my shadows….but since the sun was setting..my shadow was going faster.
Tell your son that gyrocopters are a very unique flying machine. They are very safe to have an engine out in. You have full control even at 0 mph as they will not stall. Lots of other unique characteristics about them.
Stan
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Professor: More gyro pics for your son. This picture was taken from the ground as I did a hard right turn. You can see the top of the rotors...
You can bank over 90 degrees.
Stan
Professor: Having one of my kids along is the best part of it. That is my son that we almost lost in 2002. Life is good.
The second picture is at a mile altitude. It will go to 10000 ft. if I wanted to.
Stan
how did you learn to fly one of them.
Brownbag: I taught myself to fly. I have pilots license and of course had training in an airplane...but the first two gyrocopters I had were single seaters...so I taught myself. My two seater I have now ended up handling so nice..that I never received training for it either.
Stan,
One thing stands out in your pictures....
No hills!!!
Boy that is FLAT.
Looks like fun
Stan
As usual,
Very cool pics. I especially like 1023e. Now if you could just get the RAF to fly upside down LOL.
Jon
Thanks Stan, he will be here again wed nite and I will show them to him.
He is something of an authority on aircraft even though he is not yet six years old.
I have actually researched them ..... specifically the model you have and I will probably build one eventually.
He likes looking at your stair pics too but he is really crazy about the flying pics, and of course the occasional dog or cat thread.
Thanks.
Mark
Nice pictures Stan, Thanks for sharing...............
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
Love those aerial shots, Stan.
What the heck are they doing in that field? Looks like a dozer and some other yeller equipment. Almost looks like they're trying to put terraces in.
I'll bet it is being set up to plant rice.?
I'll bet it is being set up to plant rice.?
In Illinois? Doesn't rice take quite a bit of water...as in growing in a swamp or something?
jt8
Looks like they are tileing it, drainage.
John: That is tiling equipment. Laser controlled....they can lay tile with less than 1/4 inch slope per 100 yards.
Stan ,
Josh says thank you ...... he really liked the pics. I appreciate it. Keep them coming.
Mark