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Are there any gyrocopter pilots on this board?
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:27 am
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:27 am
These things look like a hoot to fly!
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:30 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Two words:
Glide rate
Pass, hopefully for my entire lifetime
Glide rate
Pass, hopefully for my entire lifetime
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:32 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
A little etymological info on the variations that come from helicopter. It's a rebracketing situation. People have assumed it is heli-copter. So you get words like gyrocopter. However, the combination is really helico-pter. The second part is from the Greek word for wing, as in pterodactyl.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:33 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
My buddy’s wife got really into gyros after the divorce
She told everybody she became lebanese
She told everybody she became lebanese
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:36 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Just by an R44
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:37 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
I’ll stick with my Vertibird.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:45 am to High C
I have a vertibird from my youth. Rescue version with the space capsule and the astronaut in a raft. There was a hook on the bottom and you could fly up and “rescue” the astronaut and then carry him over to the landing pad.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:49 am to soccerfüt
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Pass, hopefully for my entire lifetime
You can fly one all the way to the day you die though.
Also, it should be called a gyropter.
Gyrocopter etymology would follow helico•pter and the word gyroco just makes no sense.
This post was edited on 9/8/26 at 10:53 am
Posted on 9/8/26 at 10:51 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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gyrocopter
Is that the move when you get out of the shower and sneak up on your wife and sling your wiener around in circles?
If so, then I'm your pilot.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 11:39 am to TygerTyger
Posted on 9/8/26 at 11:56 am to soccerfüt
Autorotation if your engine fails, just like a helicopter.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 11:57 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Are there any gyrocopter pilots on this board?
I once kissed another man on a dare.
Probably the closest thing we've got here.
Posted on 9/8/26 at 11:18 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Gyrocopter pilot here at your service--AMA.
Posted on 9/9/26 at 12:59 am to TJ_Burke
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Just by an R44
A Robinson is the only rotorwing I refuse to be aboard in flight.
Posted on 9/9/26 at 6:39 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Are there any gyrocopter pilots on this board?
Not for long.
Posted on 9/9/26 at 7:18 am to TJ_Burke
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Just die in a R44
FTFY
Posted on 9/9/26 at 7:28 am to soccerfüt
They autorotate down. Actually safer then they seem.
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