Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/08/23/build-your-own-private-gyrocop.html
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OK, so it’s “easy to build” and “easy to fly.” I am still a bit concerned that they make no promises about it being easy to LAND.
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Pfft. It lands EVERY TIME! A child could land it.
Didn’t they used to call them Autogyros? Or is that technically 2 different things?
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Landing is easy. It’s the walking away that’s the hard part.
No. An autogyro is a Greek sandwich that eats itself.
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Gravity will take care of that for you. Once, anyway.
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I’ve already built mine. The rest of you haven’t?
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Why a private gyrocopter?
When I was 16 years old, my parents and I discussed me perhaps buying a car. But I changed my mind and decided upon buying a cheap gyrocopter from some local classifieds. My parents freaked and erected a string of obstacles to sabotage my efforts of acquiring it. To this day I have never had a car.
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I’ve always preferred Paraplanes for homebuilts. Worst case you’ve already got your parachute deployed.
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Well, do you yet have access to a gyrocopter, at least?
I have no idea! It’s been yonks since I’ve even seen one. Probably not, I guess.
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You should definitely build one from these plans and then lend it to anyone who asks, then. Shit, if I didn’t live on the other side of the Atlantic, I’d help just for the lulz.
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It is definitively an autogyro.
An airplane with an unpowered rotating wing.
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This will come in handy for the upcoming apocalypse.
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If it doesn’t have precisely the number of rockets, flamethrowers, aerial mines and heat-seeking missiles required to take out Blofeld’s helicopters, I’m not interested. You can leave out the machine guns, though, they’re useless.
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They go together really fast if you get a kit!
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