Eastbourne International Airshow 2017
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GYRO<br />
COPTER<br />
(Rotorsport Calidus)<br />
FLYING TIMES<br />
Thurs 14:52; Fri 14:31<br />
DIMENSIONS<br />
Height: 2.7m; Length: 4.8m<br />
Width: 1.7m<br />
PERFORMANCE<br />
Max Speed: 112mph<br />
POWERPLANT<br />
1 x Rotax 912 ULS four-stroke<br />
piston engine, 100hp<br />
Making<br />
its debut<br />
this year is this<br />
tandem two-seat<br />
aircraft, designed in<br />
Germany three years<br />
ago as a comfortable<br />
touring machine.<br />
Over 1000 sold worldwide.<br />
Autogyro, Gyroplane, Gyrocopter, Gyro<br />
– call them what you like, they’re fun to<br />
fly and great to watch on display.<br />
This aircraft is a flying windmill/<br />
rotating parachute - think of a sycamore<br />
seed gently floating down as it spins!<br />
The rotor blades are completely free<br />
wheeling in flight, being driven solely<br />
by the air going up through the rotor<br />
disk. There is no mechanical drive to<br />
the rotors in flight, the phenomenon of<br />
autorotation drives them. Once airborne<br />
the rotors look after themselves<br />
and keep spinning, even if the<br />
airspeed indicator is showing zero!<br />
Autogyro’s were invented by<br />
Juan de la Cierva, only 20 years after<br />
the Wright Brothers first flight. They<br />
marked a departure from conventional<br />
fixed wing aircraft in an attempt to<br />
invent an aircraft that couldn’t stall.<br />
DID YOU KNOW?<br />
The name autogiro was a trade<br />
name for Cierva’s make of<br />
aircraft. They were the first rotary<br />
wing aircraft to fly successfully<br />
under full, safe control.<br />
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