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What's your favourite? For me I like the owen dull cabin, the kruza and UFO cabins from NZ are mint, but the best ever got to be the groen hawk, i think it looks like the gyro baby of a bell jetranger. Wish there were more cabs with the curves like that


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Based on looks alone, I am gonna have to go with the AC-20 Arrowcopter.
And of course I am partial to my gyro. The cross between jet black, carbon fiber and bright yellow is stunning to this day!


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Helicopters too? :pbunny


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Henry Bowman wrote:
Based on looks alone, I am gonna have to go with the AC-20 Arrowcopter.
And of course I am partial to my gyro. The cross between jet black, carbon fiber and bright yellow is stunning to this day!


Thats not a cabin henry :D A stunner for sure tho :clap:


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Hillberg that looks like someone drew a helicopter and fucked up the aspect ratio width on microsoft paint :D :D :D bet it cuts through the air quick !! is it turbine?


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Ha! You know I just glossed over that part and did not notice you said cabin! :lick


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the DTA Jyro was really good looking in my opinion :

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it is terrible to think that the DTA factory after having been bought by a Chinese company bankrupt ...

It is true that the arrow copter was really nice too

Gyroblazer, are you planning to build an enclosure ?


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Some photos of Owen Dull's NEWO pod


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I like Benry's style of cabin (open frame) ... or like GyroBlazer's with just a windshield/bug deflector :like :koolaid :yoda2 :Wolvie

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GyroBlazer wrote:
Hillberg that looks like someone drew a helicopter and fucked up the aspect ratio width on microsoft paint :D :D :D bet it cuts through the air quick !! is it turbine?


Yes - the yellow one cruised at 148 mph in a dive hit 184 mph the black one is a refinement [speed speed aerobatics]


My contribution to aviation was the Jet Exec - I gave the design to Dave & Walt at Kiss Aviation who made the kits.

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I love the exec rotor head system ... I even tought of coying it to try to make the michel cros regulator ..

we have an exec in the next hangar, it has a boat engine .. it works whell and the guy even traines people on it

here are the homemades of our hangar

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on the left (the blue one) this is the most protective "enclosure" it was possible to smoke in it , my mate could fly it hours and hours without getting cold even in winter

the white one was also fairly protective it had a bmw flat twine engine which stopped in flight because of a corrupted fuel tank

the red one is mine, it's enclosure is ok but the throttle is not protected, I have to wear a glove one the left hand in the winter
the enclosure give it a good 120km/h cruise speed at 5800 rpm

the last on the right had no enclosure, it's cruise speed with the same engime was 90 km/h ... it crashed because an engine failure .... my mate had forgoten a screws in the gear box ...he did a vertical autorotation on above a field ... trouble is that he wend backward, the gyro turned 180° and landed vertically .. my mate walked away with small injuries

I think it is worth mounting a small enclosure to fly in the winter and to fly 30 km/h faster


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I had an air command pod that I put on My Dom in the winter, it worked well.

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did it changed it's yaw stability ?


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Yes, I had no rudder authority at idle while landing.

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RossM wrote:
Some photos of Owen Dull's NEWO pod


Beautiful, all the curves in the right places. What happened to owen dulls cab mould?


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Girodreamer wrote:
Gyroblazer, are you planning to build an enclosure ?


Not at the moment but in the future yes

It was a dark wet rainy day out on the station oneday and I heard an chopper so I ran outside and saw the neighbors R44 cruising past in the rain. Thats where I got the idea to have a roof cabin so I can keep dry and still fly in those conditins especially if i have no choice flying on a 2000km trip or something. I dont wanna euro factory made gyro tho I like homebuild bolt together machines the best


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Yes, I had no rudder authority at idle while landing.


did you have a tall tail or the classic aircommand Rudder ?


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GyroBlazer wrote:
Girodreamer wrote:
Gyroblazer, are you planning to build an enclosure ?


Not at the moment but in the future yes

It was a dark wet rainy day out on the station oneday and I heard an chopper so I ran outside and saw the neighbors R44 cruising past in the rain. Thats where I got the idea to have a roof cabin so I can keep dry and still fly in those conditins especially if i have no choice flying on a 2000km trip or something. I dont wanna euro factory made gyro tho I like homebuild bolt together machines the best


yes it must give a totally other kind of sensations to fly without wind/rain in the face ..

I agree with you that bolted frames are a good thing (because it easy to repair !).

as for the roof cabin the main issue is to fing a stock windshield which can be found in the future in case you brake yours

My friends having DTA jyros have this problem , because in case the brake their windshield thet won't be able to buy an other one ..because DTA went bankrupt ..

I also think it is more then dangerous to build a cabin roof with flat plexiglass windshield... some have trieds in france and they crashed .. (big nose down drag momentum)


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Girodreamer wrote:
elwood wrote:
Yes, I had no rudder authority at idle while landing.


did you have a tall tail or the classic aircommand Rudder ?



It was the dominator tall tail.

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