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My Mate Sonny lives in North Carolina and wanted me to post a pic of his craft GYRO 1. When he sees the pic, he might comment somemore for us on his progress. "This is a pic of the gyro I got from Chuck Irby this past fall.,I have set in referbishing it and got the old Mac running good.Still got a lot of work to do,and am enjoying every bit of it." Regards,Mitch.Download Attachment: [img]images/icon_paperclip.gif[/img] Gyro 1.jpg43.4
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Not sure about the basketball hoop mounted on the seat back....?Obviously there is still alot for me to learn......Art...
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HeyallThis is the little gyro I bought from Chuck Irby This past fall,about a week before his untimely death.You can see there is a lot of work to be done.The tail group is constructed from the matereal that make's up the floor panales in a Boing cargo bay,it is a honycomb materal that is very lite and strong.The intire fram is redundant but probabley gonna have to change some of that too shead some weight.I will be adding a instrument cluster and small pod.The old motor is a 72hp Mac,that had to coxed into life after a lot of cleaning and adjusting,now she purrs like a kittin.The prop is a 50x28 Tennessee that I need to send in and have redone.The craft came with a set of aloy blades,Benson or KB,I'm not sure but I don't think I will use them becouse I think they have been flaped,there are a few ripples on the top skin at the trailing eadge and some missing rivits,so I'll just hang them on the wall next to my black powder rifles and my didgeridoo[I'm perty sure I spelled that wrong ]it is a momento from my trip to Sydne in the 60's.I wish I could play the thing but never could.I will be bussy building a set of Benson plywood blades for her.As much as I don't want to,I reccon the hoops gotta go,my son is pretty opset with me for distroying his baskit ball.[
)]I intend on changing the wheel base and make it longer for better ground handling,kinda scary lookin huh.[:0] Albeit I am very happy with it,a little spit pollish and paint and she will be a nice little machine.[
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