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Gyrocopter
Gyrocopter
Gyrocopter
Feb 1, 2021 6:01 PM
mmick7
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Gyrocopter
Gyrocopter
Gyrocopter
Darlingcoyote
Second hand lions??!!
CarlosTuya
Autogiro (De la cierva)
Willybum84
kamenriderladybug2
Get off my lawn!!!! Drops water balloons****
FaceDeMarde
The way he shifted his body weight after lift off made me laugh with happiness
PissingINaShotglassSpinningOnRecordplayerStrappedTOaCheetasBack
DreedAthlete
Like a boss
CarlosTuya
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_la_Cierva#The_gyroplane_(autogyro)
BuckRavers
Gyrocopter
NinjaCongo
Gyrocopter
OliverClothesoff70
After a week of practice flying....
Chawzilla
Good to see that kid from Radio Flyer is still doing his thing.
Isometimestakethingsliterally
He's 102, maybe he just figures, what the hell?
profiledit
EllipsThis
My dad is a retired Boeing engineer. I should suggest this to him as a retirement hobby.
SubtextSailor
Impressive, but isn't that Ken Wallis, who died at 97 in 2013 and never worked for Boeing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wallis
Watermelonmojito
nicktahou
That fukin takeoff tho
ryushi5
Little Nelly
2sips
I believe it was ie as apposed to Y, but thank you for posting it.
MaveYukki
can't really say why, but this is so cool ?
MissNY
I was thinking the same!! He's still building, still flying. His education never left him, nor his strong will for adventure & achievement.
MacRockatansky
Why? Probably because everything about it.
ArgonSpark
I know a guy who built one these out of a go-kart and a VW motor. He'd take off from a runway used for RC planes.
lalalalsblablabal
Richard Hammond did similar thing in Great Escapist. Nice show.
DefaultImgurUsername
"I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in
Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?"
lujotu
Nice.
squirreltactics
These things usually come in kits.
ColonelGonzo
Not a plane.
Tearofjebus69
Except, it kinda is
ColonelGonzo
afx82
How do they prevent the fuselage from rotating without a rear rotor or a second pair of rotors going the opposite way?
flashedjunkmind
I know those are words but in that order I have no idea what they mean.
PoorBoyChevelle
The main rotor is driven by the forward motion, not the engine, so there's no torque to react.
ChloeRed
air flow over the tail
Trelfar
The top rotor is not powered and spins freely due to the air being pushed through it by forward thrust from the rear facing props.
afx82
Awesome, thanks!
RickRollable
"plane"
lowbattery001
People who fly these insist that they be called "gyroPLANES" because the rotating part is a wing, and isn't powered.
vitaminalgas
What if you have long hair, a scarf or a cape?
bigblindguy
Isadora Duncan went out like that.
ThomasHate
...well...then you...don’t have them
svga
then you shortly WOULDN'T
ridetheshoopuf
Ded
supervillainsevilmoustache
The guy is 102, I’m sure he’s included the most modern safety features from *checks notes* 1952.
flashmaven
No capes, dahling
Lovethesmelloftoastedsourdoughbread
RealWorldNPC
Hey, somebody ahould tell @op this is a gyrocopter and not an airplane.
lowbattery001
People who are into these insist that they are called gyroPLANES because the spinning thing at the top is a wing which isn't powered.
leroy666
If not powered, why is it spinning at beginning of scene 2? Craft isn't moving.
mmick7
Look at the tags - Clever dick
PrincePiggo
How about the fact that the guy in the videos, Ken Wallis, has NOTHING to do with the clickbait title, not-so-clever dick?
RealWorldNPC
/s (sigh)
EccentricNimoy
102 you old has more balls than I do
snowdog04
A lot of people that old will say, "Gotta die of something, right?"
ChloeRed
It's not his most famous autogryo... he built and flew Little Nellie...
orbitn
What's the worst that's going to happen to him? Dude's probably fought in Dubya Dubya Deux, 60s'd his way through the 60s, and survived
PuncturedBag
...and a longer bag to carry them in
postalval
doubt it, thats Ken Wallis was 97 when he died
TheGodEmperorOfChaos
When your body starts to fail, you build one out of metal powered by an internal combustion engine
RyanSilver612
Old enough not to care if it fails
Immaletchufinishbutno
Came to say the same thing..
NZSheeps
"WHY CAN'T I DIE!!!!"
Hoptimonium
Lol. Poor dude looks like an animated corpse already. Getting old is brutal.
AMagicianWasDrivingDownTheRoadThenHeTurnedIntoADriveway
Jesus. I couldn't trust my grandfather to get out of a chair at 92, let alone build and operate a fucking gnomish flying machine at 102
GRIDPUSHER
Roflchopter
Hoptimonium
Most men die before 80 so your grandpa even being alive at 90 is huge
Hubb
At least 2.5 billion heart beats on that old ticker by the time of 80 with another 31m added a year. No oil change even
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AMagicianWasDrivingDownTheRoadThenHeTurnedIntoADriveway
... You've never taken care of a senior with dementia and osteoporosis. So yeah, I helped him do everything. Or he'd fucking die.
Andtheworldwentwhite
My gran could be trusted to stay in bed, unfortunately her legs couldn't be trusted to get her out of bed...we had to trust a nursing home.
archfile101
Hahaha
archfile101
My mum is 70 can't drive a fucking TV remote
Dapperworth
Genuine public lol, well done
Jeslis
Had to come back and upvote @ Gnomish Flying Machine. <3
CallThisAUsername
How expensive are these on the AH these days ?
CrumbyCake
*gyrocopter
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Pronounced euro copter
Biznakis
It's my snake. I trained it and I'M going to eat it.
PaleAleKing
Indeed!
PartVI
Isn't it technically still an airplane? Just yknow not fixed wing or anything
OGymruOGymro
*geriatricopter
walummus
Gericopter
jimfalconer611
I see what ya did there
oddpabbs
Nice +1
Richardza
Get off mah lawn
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UseTheForceLuke
Wait - what? Shouldn’t it just create drag and not lift?
NothingToSeeHereKeepMoving
Well you're 3 hours ahead of me on this.
itsimpossibletofindausernamethatisnttaken
Wtf
Monkeyspearfish
Huh, well I'll be.
CrumbyCake
Hehe, powered by passing wind. So, gas powered? Sorry, fart joke here
BigSib15
This is Ken Wallis (not boeing engineer and not 102) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wallis
lovinglockdown
Thanks! What a guy!
amyhadalittlepond
Also not a plane.
reginaldjohnston
He was a stuntman for the James Bond films tho....
MoskauHOHOHO
he was still 97 when he died which is still impressive
lowbattery001
BEST COMMENT, THANK YOU
zippyuk2001
Father of Little Nellie
kruptTV
This was good clickbait! It got me and hit me in the inspirational feels. I wonder if i would have even watched otherwise
SamAndJanetEvening
Thank you. Not that there aren't Boeing engineers in the UK, but really had my doubts.
CosmosSmasher99
This should be pinned up, are there mods in imgur?
HarmlessPervert
Thanks. The story is amazing without the added BS...
icannotthinkofanyrationalname
Thank you for being a good fact checker. The world needs more.
DrGlowforce
Do people make up stories to fill in missing content? Is this a bot glitch filling in the blanks? Just wondering what drives this happening.
CarlosBenjamin
Engineered to boost fake internet points.
wongtonpoop
Welcome to the internet, fake news exists ever since man wrote the bible.
bwav8
Fb effect. Straight out of a Black Mirror episode
lolsburn
The lies ad exactly nothing. The dude is 97 and has a plenty interesting background with no need to make shit up.
pikkunalle
Was*
xKagonu
:(
CuntCrotchula
Autogyros are fucking weird
UncleMeaty
petpet3d
All the safety of an open-air helicopter and convenience of needing a full runway
BlackCatCasper
Still safer than the Max8
twatson21
What makes you say that?
Movietimeme
Dangerous*
SoraHjort
If I recall, the big "propeller" on the top is completely unpowered. It only spins because of the air. Thus it more of a wing than a prop.
vargul16661
Think its powered to get it spinning then once in the air its air speed that keeps it rotating
Texpilot
Correct. Once rotational inertia is attained, air moving through the top rotor provides lift while the rear prop thrusts the craft forward.
Fedupmiddleageman
Then he goes “weeeeeeaaaaaaggghhhh” then he crashes.
Blethigg
They're ludicrous, I love them. It's like something from steampunk, but real. They shouldn't work at all, but they do.
merelyadequategooglymoogly
You just move this wing over here, and that one over there, before gravity notices the ol' switcheroo.
ColorblindMonk
I see!
Bachofbach
For the kinda person who saw a plane and thought “fixed wings are just too damn safe”
BobTheSwede
This is actualy safer since it wont stall
Bachofbach
Yeah all you have to worry about is the “Jesus bolt” staying intact
Bachofbach
Jesus nut*
StarkRG
Probably, but his sexual life is never really discussed.
SuperBeetle76
I had no idea what they were. fascinating. for those that want to know: https://youtu.be/mQieKnglzj4
Aaronb1138
Just an FYI, that video alludes to the massively incorrect Bernoulli model of pressure change which only contributes about 3% lift. Most
Aaronb1138
lift is produced by an airfoil by propelling air downward, not by pressure differentials above and below the wing.
zooumberg8
Never seen James Bond?
SuperBeetle76
Rather I just thought they were a mini helicopter, but I didn’t know the physics behind them.
zooumberg8
No, the rotors are unpowered. They spin with the air going over them.
yoyo42
Autogyro PILOTS are. I saw a display once that fitted entirely in an 800yd cube at no speed but had loops, twists, stalls and a touch and go
thesauceisboss
Sauce me please!!!!!
Kamica
You can find videos of Autogyro displays/shows though to get an idea.
jg071071071
Neat
yoyo42
Sorry, it was live not video! I was too busy watching to record it.
thesauceisboss
Damn. I thought it might have been when I reread your comment. That’s really amazing though.
yoyo42
It was gobsmacking.