One for James Bond enthusiasts.

[planedriver]

Large scale model of "Little Nellie" Brilliant!

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Made it look easy. Nev

 

 

[Thruster88]

Gyrocopters are interesting and fun to watch but I have no desire to fly in one. 

 

 

[Litespeed]

Barnes Wallis would be proud.

 

Lovely scale flight.

 

 

[onetrack]

Litespeed, I think you're thinking of Kenneth Horatio Wallis, not the designer of the WW2 "bouncing bomb".

 

 

[Litespeed]

You could be right.

 

I have been wrong before and will again

 

 

[facthunter]

No, you were wrong about that. (being wrong before, not this time.) Nev

 

 

[Litespeed]

So you saying it was Barnes Wallis?

 

No it was Wing commander Kenneth Wallis.

 

So I was wrong. Now that feels about normal.

 

 

[onetrack]

You know the old saying - "If a man says something in the woods, and there are no women there, is he still wrong?" 

 

 

[Bootstrapper]

@ Thruster88

I have flown a gyroplane. They look scary from the ground, but the ride is much smoother than a fixed-wing. They have a high tolerance for gusts and turbulence and in an emergency (like an engine failure) they can land safely in spaces a fixed-wing can't. The main danger with gyros - the equivalent of the stall in a fixed-wing - is the 'power push-over' aka 'Pilot-Induced Oscillation' which is largely caused by excessive airspeed. Contemporary designs feature a fixed horizontal stabiliser and lower thrust-lines to alleviate this issue. Their main drawback is thay they're aerodynamically inefficient, compared to a fixed-wing and not the best choice for long-distance travel, unless you're not in a hurry and don't care about fuel burn/cost. Gyros are best suited for recreational aviation - the aerial equivalent of a dirt-bike.

 

With the video, larger (R/C) gyros appear to fly better than small ones. Maybe scale is a factor?

I'm told that Ken Wallace himself, flew "Little Nellie" for the scenes in the movie.

[old man emu]

"If a man says something in the woods, and there are no women there, is he still wrong?"

 

I asked my wife and she said, "Of course."

[IBob]

I came across a nice description the other day:

"Often wrong, but never unsure"

Would seem to describe the various muppets running various countries?