A single seat open frame gyrocopter. Pre-rotator spins up to 350 rpm. Airframe is bolted square and round tube aluminium. Shock mounted landing gear.
Engine: 52 hp Rotax 503
Prop: 2 blade wood standard, 3 blade composite optional
Rotor blades: Composite 23’ NACA 23012.
The 1960 Saalfield Aircraft Co Skyskootor, with a molded fiberglass fuselage, was sold either as a complete aircraft or in component form. $3,495-3,995 assembled with motor, $1,995 as a kit less motor.
Engine: 72hp McCulloch 4318A (factory overhauled) or 4318E (new)
Rotor: 21’4″
Length: 10’0″
Useful load: 440 lb
Max speed: 85 mph
Cruise speed: 65 mph
Min speed: 25 mph
Range: 250 mi
Ceiling: 12,000 ft
Seats: 2
San Diego CA.
USA
Built the Skyskootor gyrocopter in 1960.
The Russian Gyroplanes Gyros-2 Smartflier autogyro was designed for a variety of roles, including aerial application, courier, forestry patrol, search and rescue, geological survey, air taxi and flight training. It features a single main rotor, a two seats in side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit accessed by doors, tricycle landing gear, plus a tailwheel and a 200 hp (149 kW) Mistral 200 engine in tractor configuration.
Russian designed and produced by Russian Gyroplanes of Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, the aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
The autogyro has a two-bladed rotor and a three or six-bladed tractor propeller. The autogyro also fits an optional Racket 120 single-cylinder, two-stroke auxiliary engine for running the agricultural equipment, when it is installed.
Gyros-2
Powerplant: 1 × Mistral 200 gasoline engine, 150 kW (200 hp)
Aux powerplant: 1 × Racket 120, 10 kW (13 hp)
Propeller: 3-bladed ground adjustable
Empty weight: 610 kg (1,345 lb)
Gross weight: 750 kg (1,653 lb)
Fuel capacity: 100 litres (22 imp gal; 26 US gal)
Useful load: 140 kg (309 lb)
Payload w/ full fuel: 68 kg (150 lb)
Cruise speed: 130 km/h (81 mph; 70 kn)
Range: 800 km (497 mi; 432 nmi)
Rate of climb: 3.1 m/s (610 ft/min)
Crew: one
Capacity: one passenger
Russian Gyroplanes designed the Gyros-1 Farmer autogyro for aerial work use, including aerial application, courier, forestry patrol, search and rescue and geological survey.
It features a single main rotor, a single-seat enclosed cockpit accessed by a door, tricycle landing gear, plus a tailwheel and a 200 hp (149 kW) Eggenfellner E6 Suburu-based, automotive conversion, six cylinder, four-stroke, horizontally-opposed, liquid-cooled, gasoline engine in tractor configuration.
Russian designed and produced by Russian Gyroplanes of Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast, the Gyros-1 is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.
The aircraft fuselage includes a baggage compartment or application hopper between the cockpit and the nose-mounted engine. It has a two-bladed rotor and a four-bladed propeller. The aircraft also fits an optional Racket 120 single-cylinder, two-stroke auxiliary engine for running the agricultural equipment, when installed.
Gyros-1 Farmer
Powerplant: 1 × Eggenfellner E6, 150 kW (200 hp)
Aux powerplant: 1 × Racket 120, 10 kW (13 hp)
Propeller: 4-bladed ground adjustable
Empty weight: 610 kg (1,345 lb)
Gross weight: 750 kg (1,653 lb)
Useful load: 140 kg (309 lb)
Fuel capacity: 100 litres (22 imp gal; 26 US gal)
Payload w/full fuel: 68 kg (150 lb)
Cruise speed: 130 km/h (81 mph; 70 kn)
Range: 800 km (497 mi; 432 nmi)
Rate of climb: 3.1 m/s (610 ft/min)
Crew: one
First flown in June 1989, the 3D-RV qualifies as an ultralight with a Rotax 503 or 582. Only available as plans, they originally cost US$100, with drawings for a Subaru engine an additional $20.
Engine: Rotax 503DC, 50 hp
hp range: 50-65
Height: 7.3 ft
Length: 8.5 ft
Disk span: 25 ft
Disk area: 491 sq.ft
Fuel capacity: 5 USG
Empty weight: 245 lb
Gross weight: 500 lb
Max speed: 65 mph
Cruise: 50 mph
Range: 80 sm
Rate of climb: 800 fpm
Takeoff dist: 700 ft
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft
Seats: 1
Undercarriage: nose wheel
1997: PO Box 18616, Salt Lake City, UT 84118, USA.
Gyroplane builder
A 1960 two-seat autogyro with a close-cockpit and a 85hp Continental C-85 engine. A production version with a 115hp engine was also planned.
Sportsman
Engine: 1 x Continental C-85, 85hp
Rotor diameter: 7.3m
Length: 3.6m
Load: 200kg
Maximum speed: 150km/h
Minimum speed: 20km/h
Range: 480km
The Rotorvox C2A is a two-seat autogyro developed in Germany.
Structurally, the C2A is largely carbon-fibre monocoque. The fuselage pod contains a protective cell for the side-by-side seating behind a large, forward hinged, three piece canopy. A faired pylon, mounted immediately behind the cell supports a two blade aluminium rotor and behind it a 73 kW (98 hp) Rotax 914 liquid-cooled flat-four engine drives a pusher three blade propeller. The rotor is pre-rotated hydraulically.
Flat-sided tail booms are held away from the fuselage on short stubs and each mounts a straight-tapered fin and rudder, their tips linked by the tailplane. There are shallow, long ventral fins. The C2A has a short-legged, wide track tricycle undercarriage with its mainwheels near to the forward end of the booms and a nosewheel under the forward fuselage.
First flown around 2009, at least two prototypes were flown over five years of development before C2A deliveries began in October 2014.
Engine: 1 × Rotax 914, 73 kW (98 hp) continuous
Main rotor diameter: 8.40 m (27 ft 7 in)
Blades: two aluminium, airfoil NACA 8H12
Length: 5.50 m (18 ft 1 in) fuselage; including rotors 8.40 m (27 ft 7 in)
Width: 2.21 m (7 ft 3 in) fuselage
Height: 2.85 m (9 ft 4 in)
Max takeoff weight: 560 kg (1,235 lb)
Fuel capacity: 90 l (20 imp gal; 24 US gal)
Propellers: 3-bladed Duc, 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) diameter
Cruise speed: 145 km/h (90 mph; 78 kn)
Never exceed speed: 164 km/h (102 mph; 89 kn)
Range: 600 km (373 mi; 324 nmi)
Endurance: maximum 6 hr
Crew: Two
German investment group Lift Holding will combine the technical expertise of Flight Design with its other recently acquired aviation asset, gyrocopter producer Rotorvox. Both companies will be headquartered at the Kindel Airport near Eisenach.
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