Not too sure about this one, looks funny....
http://www.luciaair.com/apollo-gyro-1s- ... -soon.html

I did not visit them either while in Hungary.... apparently, they do not like me since I told the truth about their gyro!!!!
And for the record.....dear Apollo....it's NOT A FREAKING GYROCOPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im must be a bit behind on gyro politics.
Besides looking like it doesnt have enough tail authority, what would warrent such derision and snickerdoodling?
Is this like those Vortach gyros where you spend money and never get anything?

Finally someone calling one of those things by its correct name....

I hate them calling gyrocopters 'gyroplanes'..... referring to them as 'planes' makes dickhead spam can pilots look for something with wings....

A 'copter' has rotor blades....

Them fukkers don't know they are autogyros!!!!
As the inventor, Cierva called them.
Then some dumbass started to call them gyroplanes because they were attached to airplane fuselages.
Then came Bensen (NOT FUKKING BENSON!!!!) and he registered the name gyrocopter.
That thang on the picture resembles neither....sooooooooo

Yeah Gab! you show 'em!

Keep everyone else in line too.

If these are called 'gyroplanes' even tho they have rotors...

then Helicopters should be called 'heliplanes'.....

Gyroplane sounds

The autogyro was invented by the Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva in an attempt to create an aircraft that could fly safely at low speeds. He first flew one on 9 January 1923, at Cuatro Vientos Airfield in Madrid. Cierva's aircraft resembled the fixed-wing aircraft of the day, with a front-mounted engine and propeller. Under license from Cierva in the 1920s and 1930s, the Pitcairn & Kellett companies made further innovations. Late-model autogyros patterned after Etienne Dormoy's Buhl A-1 Autogyro and Igor Bensen's designs feature a rear-mounted engine and propeller in a pusher configuration. The term Autogiro was a trademark of the Cierva Autogiro Company, and the term Gyrocopter was used by E. Burke Wilford who developed the Reiseler Kreiser feathering rotor equipped gyroplane in the first half of the twentieth century. The latter term was later adopted as a trademark by Bensen Aircraft.

So I guess the generic name is Gyroplane.
Autogyro and Gyrocopter were trade names.
Gotta remember in the beginning they didn't have a clue what a Helicopter was.
I'm sure the name Gyrocopter came after the birth of the Helicopter.

I call mine a whirlybird
Seace got me started on that nickname

True Jake, but patents usually run out after 50 years.... same as music. You will notice some advertisements feature songs/music we remember from years ago... they are no longer covered by legal mumbo jumbo... so no royalties need to be paid unleess the patent/ownership has been renewed.


The fuselages of Ciervas first 'Autogiro's' WERE fuselages of planes of the time.... some had the wings removed, some had stumpy wings fitted as the ailerons WERE the control before the hinged rotors and tilting rotor disks came about.... These with wings or remanants of wings were 'gyroplanes'

To me, a 'plane' has fixed wings.... a 'copter' has rotating wings/rotors.

If there is a pilot and copilot in a fixed wing and they hear of a 'gyroplane' near them.... they will probably glance up from their cell phones and have a quick look for some sort of plane.... they won't be looking for something with rotors.

People can call them whatever they want, I just don't like the name gyroplane being forced onto gyrocopters.

Looks like an ugly copy/clone of a Cavalon!