On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:52:53PM -0500, DAN KITCHING wrote: | Have you ever tried auto-ing a heli into slope lift? You'd be amazed, | just make sure your idle is reliable 'cause you can auto as long as | you like and it's difficult to finish the auto onto the ground once | you've stopped in lift.
One time when I was out at the slope, a guy showed up with a slope _helicopter_. It was basically a helicopter with no engine. I'm not sure if that makes it an autogyro rather than a helicopter or not -- most of the autogyros I've seen had standard airplane tails, but this plane was basically a helicopter with no engine. Though it wasn't just a helicopter where the engine was removed -- apparantly he used a lot of helicopter parts to make it, but it was definately made to be a helicopter sloper. Alas, he didn't fly it that day, and I haven't seen him back again ... -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roses are red; I'm schizophrenic, Violets are blue. And so am I. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
