Pitcairn Mailwings have helper wings to force you upright. Do this? Don't do that? How about don't get a Benson.

Is that the equivalent of a stall in a light aircraft.

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Couldn't the main problem be, it's not a helicopter, and shouldn't attempt to look like one, and the prop should be at the front of the aircraft?

Was an aggressive pull up , and the stall proves it

Looks like a stall. Might have recovered at a higher altitude.

No horizontal stabilizer and no forward motion, a dangerous mix.

If God wanted humans to fly, He would have made a way!

Stupid pilots

I stay safe by staying the hell away from autogyros.

the only thing more stupid than a helicopter is one of these things

Lots of interesting content but in my opinion biased towards Magni. In my experience flying a Magni is like flying a bus, flying an AutoGyro in comparison is like a Ferrari so much more manoeuvrable. M24 is like flying a kiddies bubble around the sky, slow and ponderous, turn left and it shakes one way, turn right and it shakes differently-awful! 😂

That looks like Jim Vanek in that Sport Copter. I've watched him do some crazy stuff in his gyros at the Scappoose Airport. I remember the first time he did a loop in the "Lightning."

Kinda like telling a joke and implying the punch line.

Looked like a stall too close to the ground to me

On the adjustable prop, why is that not an automatic control? ie. FADEC adjusts for you.

I fly helicopters, most of my 14,000 hours with the Army 160th. No rotor system is safe under negative g loads. If it’s not safe in an AH6, it’s certainly not safe in one of these little things. Just my 2 cents. Keep your ass planted, not floating.

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What crash? I clicked on this to see a crash and it gets cut off before impact. WTH? 🤦

Im not sure what the recovery direction's meant. (Slightly Aft ) im guessing power down and push down on the control arm .🤔

I don’t fly a gyrocopter so I don’t know much about their flight characteristics, however I have a Bristell, a light sport aircraft with a fairly big engine given the weight of the plane, 140 HP. I can easily stall it if I pitch up too vigorously. So It seemed to me that the pilot in the video stalled the aircraft by pitching up the way he did. Please let me know if I’m wrong about this.

Watched a similar fatal accident happen at Farnborough UK long time ago, I think in the seventies.

If i flew one of these a pop chute seems like a must, when it fails it seems to fail epic

Lesson No1: Don't ever fly a gyrocopter!

Death machines! Cannot do aerobatics, so just potter about the patch. Boring.

Taylor Jeffrey Wilson Sandra Williams David

This is where a nice little computer program that would automatically cut the throttle back if the stick if pushed forward while climbing would save lives.

The whole tail of the Cavalon looks ridiculously small especially the horizontal surface. Also the front wheel looks like it isn't a caster wheel. This will cause the aircraft prone to rolling over in a crosswind landing.

Sorry… are you Phil Bennett as in BTCC driver Phil Bennett? If so I grew up watching BTCC, my first job was fabrication of modified saloon racing cars (technically qualified as a panel beater and some mechanical engineering), later built and raced my own motorcycles (it’s cheaper than cars!) and now pondering flying gyrocopters. How bizarre! 😂

On the video of the jet, it looks like his starboard flap hadn't come down.

You warn of graphic crash but never actually show the crash. Very lame.

I’ve enjoyed watching the Benson gyrocopter decades ago. These Cavalons look like fun. After almost 50 years flying SEL aircraft, it may be time to get one of these. Based on the accident stats, if I screw up, I’m avoiding those final bad years anyhow.

The Pitcairn PA-18 was probably the last real version. The bensons and others with pusher type engines are a crime in progress. Deliberate sabotage.

Putting the engine at the back seems to be a malicious evil thing.

Nasty

In the 1960s I went to a California dry lake bed to see these little death traps operate. After noticing that only a thrust bearing was keeping the rotor attached, I abandoned all thoughts of buying one of these junk buckets.

Tbh even a fixed wing would have behaved in exactly the same way, it's just a stall due to pulling back too hard and losing all airspeed over the wing (rotor). No correction possible at such a low height. Be gentle be graceful and never show off.

Gravity never takes a vacation.......RIP to the pilot and condolences to the family. I heard Cook Cleland once say (talking to Bob Odegaard)......" in a hundred years of aviation.....we've never left a man up there"

Too many moving parts to make lift. Give me a fixed wing please.

100% death traps.

So what's the point then?

You a special gift to take away all the joy from flying Gyroplanes....

You iust haven't found the right gyro...

Idiots behind the stick.....is my guess.

Turn any rotating flywheel,,and it wiil displace 90 degrees out of plane,,simple,,

Robinson George Johnson Lisa Lee Daniel

What a stupid and dangerous aircraft

A lot of the problems are a result of personal attitude. Aircraft flown properly are very safe, gyros especially so, but they are terribly unforgiving of mistakes or abuse. You don't know it all when you get your rating, you don't know it all at 1000 hours! The most important flight envelope you must be in is the one headed up, ''Correct Personal Attitude''

Gyros are inherently safe aircraft, BUT they need to be flown within quite strict parameters, using correct techniques. You cannot learn to fly a gyro in 10 hours as has been advertised, Rotor speed control is an imperative and directional control and correction of lateral drift on landing is vital to ensure safe landings. Get the basics right, apply common sense and a gyro is a very fun way of committing aviation. Failing to engage the brain before you engage the pre-rotator can result in other pilots discussing your shortcomings only in the past tense!

Not for the faint hearted. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZfNc62oiKmljJIsi=kHlfGahtbFgt226f You would think the main gauges would be self-contained one function, no flipping through a GPS like menu, and main gauges as big as the dashboard of a 1960s muscle car. Every try with a Garmin punching in an address over a rough road. This seems nothing more than mine is bigger than yours, making it look like an Airbus. Also all that crap, something else to maintain. Should it be a requirement, this is what the main instrument panel real estate will look like, contain. Anything else you decide to clutter up goes else where? Maybe the money would be better spent, computer sounding off, instructions for a zero, or negative gravity event, your stick is wrong, pull back, get off the power? Crap I have issues on the same android phone finding tge same apps on the wife's phone. She has them layidout different.