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 Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:21 am Posts: 7141 Location: Lost Has thanked: 115 times Been thanked: 8601 times 
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anyone know anything about the Nikki Rotor lightning?
saw it at Bensen Days last year, (2015) and nothing since.???  Attachment: Autojyro_Lightning9.jpg All I could find out is that they are going to use a rotax 912, did they drop the D-motor? "Due to the enormous demand for a Rotax engine in the Lightning, Niki Rotor Aviation has decided it is necessary to make the conversion to meet our customers’ needs. We are finalizing the tests of the redesigned Lightning powered by a Rotax 912." You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ It's never too late to be a bad example. I spent all my money on Bikes, Broads, and Booze, the rest I wasted. |
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Site Admin  Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10117 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21835 times Been thanked: 6192 times
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They prolly realised no one can afford to pay $250k for one and it cant even be insured? and anyone willing to spend that amount of $ would be able to afford a heli of similar size that they can insure:noidea
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 9:20 am |
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I think this gyro has the most innovative tail design.
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:12 am |
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Having cracking problems..... Body is not liking the structure being soooooo lightened out.
Working on stiffening the frame. _________________  A walk in the woods helps me relax and release tension. The fact that I am dragging a body should be entirely irrelevant! A simple thank you would have been enough for the morning coffee without all that "how did you get in here" nonsense. |
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:51 am |
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Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:21 am Posts: 7141 Location: Lost Has thanked: 115 times Been thanked: 8601 times
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The U.S. distributor is right down there in sunny Fl...17673 Marsh Road
Winter Garden, FL 34787 _________________ It's never too late to be a bad example. I spent all my money on Bikes, Broads, and Booze, the rest I wasted. |
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:12 am |
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Site Admin Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10117 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21835 times Been thanked: 6192 times
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The setup is the most susceptible to harmonic vibration.... it is an pure unsupported cantilever, doing work in all directions whilst being shaken constantly by harmonic vibration from the rotors, prerotator and the motor and prop.... as well as all the various gyroscopic loads.... and everything is focused right where the prop is. Scary!
 Great/fantastic idea, but I wouldn't trust it personally.... depending on what the construction of the boom is.  Especially because you cant see inside it without regular dismantling  You will know very quickly if it fails tho   _________________ I do all of my own stunts..... most of them are even planned! Ok, Ok.... some of them are planned.. If electricity comes from ELECTRONS, then surely morality comes from MORONS?? |
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:18 am |
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Site Admin Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10117 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21835 times Been thanked: 6192 times
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Speaking of weird designs.... I wonder if this ever flew?
 You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ I do all of my own stunts..... most of them are even planned! Ok, Ok.... some of them are planned.. If electricity comes from ELECTRONS, then surely morality comes from MORONS?? |
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:34 am |
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Joined: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:21 am Posts: 7141 Location: Lost Has thanked: 115 times Been thanked: 8601 times
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yeah I don't like that one, just because it is ugly.
_________________ It's never too late to be a bad example. I spent all my money on Bikes, Broads, and Booze, the rest I wasted. |
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:35 am |
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Site Admin Joined: Tue Sep 02, 2014 7:45 am Posts: 10117 Location: Poona, Qld, OZZY Has thanked: 21835 times Been thanked: 6192 times
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elwood wrote: yeah I don't like that one, just because it is ugly. I don't like it because all of the stress is at the back at the mast junction. Another unsupported cantilever. Get a shop stapler (manual one) and hold it by the top and see how easy it is to pop it open with weight on the bottom half Just a purty ornament I guess? Here is another gyro with the boom thru the prop... got the pic off google, evidently it was for sale on the other forum... You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post. _________________ I do all of my own stunts..... most of them are even planned! Ok, Ok.... some of them are planned.. If electricity comes from ELECTRONS, then surely morality comes from MORONS?? |
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| Tue Aug 09, 2016 11:44 am |
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