Ron A.

[birdy]

Cum outa the closet ya girl's blouse and show yaself.[}]I know you been lurk'n.[]No bites yet,I don't reckon anyone over there is interested.Ignorance is bliss............but only till you realise you were.Ingratitude stinks.......be generous carefully.

[asra]

Hhhhmmmm.You lookin for another campain to get someone banned??[]To make that really work you have to get Todd, the other half of the team to join him. []Chuck E.

[asra]

Hi Birdy. I only lurk here once in a blue moon. Just found this thread. Hi Chuck, been missing you... [:X]just my two cents

[pocky]

Gyro ron good to see you down under,welcome aboard,Yere .Chucks floating around,I have enjoyed your input on the L.W. and the techs.Love to here more one the L.W.boundry rider

[asra]

Hello Pocky, Like I said in another post here, I only check this forum every once in a while. It is hard to navigate for me, and since I don't know most of you guys it is harder to figure out what is going on. As for the Little Wing autogyro, I have not flown a real LW yet. I did fly a PitBull and a Scratch built copy of a Little Wing and I was certainly impressed. Neither gyro felt like they would be as good as a pusher for working a field of cows, but both were reasonably sporty and manuverable. Both were easy and comfortable to fly once off the ground.Concerning AussiePauls accident in the Little Wing, one thing I now remember happening to me when I flew the Little Wing copy was that at very slow airspeeds the rudder was not really able to counter cross winds. My first landing in the JT-2 the Corss wind was pretty strong and as I got down to around 10 mph airspeed the gyro weathervaned into that crosswind and the gyro landed totally sidewides. Luckly I had the gyros ground speed down to zero when it touched down and it didn't flip over. But I do now remember how quickly the gyro " got " me. My guess is the best way to land one with a stiff crosswind would be to keep the airspeed and power on all the way to the ground and then stop the machine.just my two cents

[asra]

Ron, I never had any problems at all with cross winds. The L/Wing rudder authority is excellent. She was landing just touching the tail wheel a split second before the mains. I had landed a number of times in 15 mph 90 degree cross winds with very little effort required. The landings were very slow due to the 26' rotor, and the rudder control was still ok.The day of the accident I was landing 45 degrees across the runway into the wind to land a little closer to the hanger, 300' instead of having to taxi quite a bit further. The strip was a little rough for the unsprung gear, even though we had let the tyres down to have a bit of give. I had landed in this same spot a number of times.Aussie Paul.[]Keith enjoying his training.Image Insert: 45.97 KBIn the Kotta hanger.Image Insert: 58.65 KBKeith working on the 912.Image Insert: 83.14 KBwww.firebirdgyros.com