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A modern, closed-cabin, pusher-propeller autogyro in flight. An autogyro (from Greek αὐτός and γύρος, "self-turning"), or gyroplane, is a class of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift.
The aircraft is a compound autogyro with a high-inertia rotor and wings optimized for high-speed flight. In 2005, the aircraft demonstrated flight at mu-1, with the rotor tip having airspeed equal to the aircraft's forward airspeed, without any vibration or control issues occurring.
The Cavalon is a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration development of the tandem-seating AutoGyro Calidus.It features a single main rotor, an enclosed cockpit with a complete aerodynamic cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912 engine or turbocharged 115 hp (86 kW) Rotax 914 or 135 ...
In 1930 the emphasis was on the development of a stable autogyro and lateral and pitch control was provided by traditional aircraft control surfaces adapted to low speeds. The stub wings, mounted on the lower fuselage longerons and braced with V-struts to the upper longerons, carried full span, broad chord balanced ailerons as a safeguard while ...
The Avian Gyroplane was a two-seat autogyro without wings, with a ducted fan pusher propeller driven by a 200 hp (150 kW) Lycoming IO-360 piston engine. It had a three-bladed rotor, formed from bonded aluminium.
The AutoGyro Calidus is a German autogyro, designed and produced by AutoGyro GmbH of Hildesheim. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. [1] The Calidus was approved in the United Kingdom in 2010 in a modified form as the RotorSport UK Calidus. [1] [2]
The gyroplane was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built rules. It features a single main rotor, a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield, tricycle landing gear , and a twin cylinder, two-stroke , liquid-cooled, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine in pusher configuration .
ARC Aerosystems later designed and produced the Pegasus VTOL Tec, a modern a two-seat, single-engine autogyro, closely modelled on the Avian Gyroplane, but with VTOL capacity. Prototypes were built and, on 13th November 2023, ARC Aerosystems announced the start of test flights at its facilities in Cranfield (to gain CAA certification).