Viral Video of Gyroplane 

Titus Cato, why is this a better option than fixed wing, if you are taking off from a prepared field the gyro has little advantage.

@@joelmartin2549 Much shorter take off and landing length. If there isn't an airfield nearby you can use a shorter piece of road than a fixed wing would need.

Turksarama, I get the short take off, but helicopters are filling this roll now, how is this better than helicopter and fixed wing? If the answer is cheaper, the one other question is: is it really, this machine looks too small, so a larger one would probably need to be used so....?

It’s not going over people’s heads. If a person is in stable condition and needs to transfer for some reason an ambulance or helicopter would do a better job. Direct to the hospital with a nurse to watch the patient en route.

@@joelmartin2549 gyros have an unpowered rotor so much lower matience cost no life on rotors so much much lower operating costs. This was all done in the 1930's though,. With jump take off.

your broke ass cudnt afford a model steam train

Hahahaha

I don't know what country your from but most industrialised country's absolutely a license is required!!!!

You need 150-200kW to fly one of these safely. This would equate to a football field spread of solar panels. And batteries are too heavy for such a light aircraft. Engine propulsion is the optimal approach.

That maybe why(to me)that pilot appeared to be somewhat stressed transporting🤔...Great point though, however the kinds of patients that's being transported by these means, it's not necessary 🤔...

Who said it was a medical gyroplane? It is a ritual for the farewell to the last journey. To heaven by air, so to speak ...

Where does the medic sit? On the roof, or bracing themselves on the feet rail like a scene from MASH?

@@effyleven That is a four place gyro. Medic would be behind the pilot.

At least you'll be busy filming the pilot and the view !

Fake news! In the hands of a skilled pilot like the one in this video, Gyrocopters are statistically safer than airplanes and helicopters.

@@agentred8732 I'm sure that's correct, it just doesn't look that way. As far as first impressions go, I would be very apprehensive accepting a ride in one of these!

Shirley, you are misinformed. Do some research before shooting your mouth off.

@@Christeky like all aircraft they operate within the laws of physics. They are much safer in rough weather than other aircraft, I have literally taken mine off across the width of a grass strip when every other aircraft was grounded. Very stable the rotor automatically tweeters to compensate for differences around the disk so you climb and resend in rough weather but it doesn't pitch about,. Engine outs are a doddle easy. My first engine failure happened while practicing engine out landing s. The motor cut on the way down just landed normally went to taxi back to find my motor had stopped. They are unsafe at very high speeds but flown normally by well trained pilots they are probably the safest aircraft around. They cannot stall, spin, rotor automatically compensate s and self governs so you cannot over or underspeed the rotor in normal flight ,. No negative g like helicopters,. Buy if everything goes wrong you can just pull back on the stick and it descends like a parachute to the ground. Extremely safe but you need to be trained by a competent instructor.

There are 4 seat commercial gyros which could hold doctor or paramedic, and can jump takeoff and landing in feet.

@@cameronlapworth2284 Excellent. I haven't come across them, and you don't share a link, but I will take you at your word. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge gyro fanboy, and think that Cessnas and the like should be selling for pennies as people realize the awesomeness of gyros to fixed wing aircraft. But even though you can land in feet, and jump takeoff, the helicopter can land in rougher weather and doesn't need any runway to land. Still have to give the overall advantage to helicopters.

@@digitalranger4259 look up goening hawk? Gyroplane s and helicopter s are equally good in rough weather as both share similar dynamics around high wing loading, and articulated rotors. Basically both have to compensate for the difference in advancing and retreating blade airspeed which is always double the forward airspeed. They do this by teetering or flapping hinges so the advancing blade lifts washing off angle of attack while the retreating blade dips gaining a of a. This means that any difference in lift is automatically balanced across the disk. This was pressed home to me when I had been flying gyro for a few years and was offered a flight in the ultralight I'd training in. I took off and we hit a thermal under one wing and I sat there tilted the pilot said are you going to level it, I did then it happened again and again and Im thinking why aren't I compensating. Anyway I went flying in my gyro and realised I'd hit a thermal the gyro would slowly pick up the lift but didn't tilt so you don't touch the stick and it never pitches up down left right. You can get the vertical stabiliser yaw left or right but no bank or pitch (however I did have correct downthrust on the motor). I've flown in winds that had all fixed wings at my airstrip unable to fly I just took off across the strip and landed vertically from again the width of the strip (we had no cross strip) a couple of pilots almost cane unstuck when the winds where even weaker. So no real difference in handling between helicopter s and gyros in rough weather.

@@cameronlapworth2284 nobody today makes a 4 seat vertical take off gyrocopter

@@shawnwright5332 oh yes they Goering brothers aviation hawk 4. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XCEYfW8DyxQ.html Mate I've flown gyros since ny early 20s built, flown and even instructed in gyrogliders. I wouldn't describe myself as an expert but I'm familiar with what's around. There was even a tip jet composite chopper/gyro hybrid (could take of and land as a chopper or gyro). Flew in forward flight as a gyro. Carried about 30 or more people fairly rotordyne. Google it. Interesting aircraft.

If there are life's at stake your critical gaze is definitely necessary. This gyroproctor is absolutely not up to this task.

If you look closely you'll see that there was no door behind the pilot side of this Gyroplane. So I guess there is no room for an attendant. Too bad, this would have met quite a few requirements that a helicopter fills at a fraction of the cost.

@@thatdutchguy2882 Nonsense! It flies, it carries the needed payload, and it is as safe as any other small aircraft, safer actually.

Lol... hadn't noticed that, so you're most likely correct, just an enactment for pub....

Shane Martin yes, and the patient will handle the flight controls. Very efficient.

My thoughts, exactly. He no longer looked like a baked potato.

The person must have felt better he even filmed the views outside and the pilot flying. LOL

He wanted to look his best for the girl on the right at 2:29

the pilot ate it...

Dan Frederiksen : Make that girl on the left!

Well, yes and no. I haven't priced this model, but similar models are about the same price as a luxury car (less than $150,000), and I'm guessing this is comparable. Airplanes in that price range are rare, and airplanes that are large enough to transport a patient at the price range are nonexistent, unless very old and in need of a great deal of regular maintenance. Too, in sustained winds of 35-45 knots or greater (not uncommon in mountainous regions, for example, or on the coast), the gyroplane can take off and land vertically in most instances. An airplane can't do that, either. Some autogyros cruise at 90 to 120 knots. The one in this video cruises at 102 knots. That's plenty fast enough to get a patient from point A to point B, again, in most situations. I used to fly in Medevac Hueys when working EMS decades ago, they can go faster but are also limited in when and where they can take off and land. They also cost well over 10 times more. They could be ideal for flying a non-trauma patient, too, for treatment in a remote facility, and do so with regular high test gasoline, rather than aviation fuel, which is also a monetary advantage. Both helicopters and planes serve their purposes, and they gyroplane can be a practical third option.

@@ArsPraestigium I have an LSA, I have friend who have gyros. It's just worst in every aspect.

I think there is truth to that but the gyrocopter has some helicopter like advantages at a lower cost.

Gyroplane s are significant ly cheaper and safer and easier to fly,. They use much less fuel and can take off from unprepared paddock s and land in tiny spaces. So a fixed wing aircraft needs a prepared strip at both ends. A helicopter fully equipped is probably close to a million a GA aircraft would need a proper airstrip as medical transport for a stable patent this would be a good choice much quicker and cheaper than tying up an ambulance for country town to city transport. Obviously not a replacement for medical emergency thougg

One more thing look up dead man's curve in a helicopter. Engine failure in gyro ease stick forward maintain airspeed and land with a foot or two ground roll. Rather than pull stick back bottom the pitch then try to dive to gain back rotor speed and glide and land so long as you had enough Hight + or airspeed. You pay a massive price to hover.

@@cameronlapworth2284 Thank god, someone with some gyrocopter knowledge here.

That gyrocopter is not engineered for vertical take off landing the hawk 4 passenger is but is no longer made as well as the gyrhino which was never produced for the public all other gyrocopters need runway to take off and land fact!

No need for "a few hundred hours of pilot training." New pilots solo Gyros in the same amount of time as the average new fixed wing pilot .. around 10 to 15 hours. Granted.. a brand new pilot is not going to be flying gyro ambulances, and a commercial ticket is needed, but it does not take the hundreds of hours a helicopter does.

Gerardo ,acelera porque el eje vertical no tiene traccion,(motor) ese eje tracciona con la resistencia que ejerce el aire con las palas del rotor

With proper training and experience known for a fact safest way to fly period or just google it yourself

@@shawnwright5332 Yup!

Yea but for half the world's poorest countries this is a life saving alternative that can be offered when no money is available for the very expensive helicopter program!!!!

ThatDutchguy, if it's a choice between that or possibly nothing or a few hours ambulance ride. For no critical injuries, I'd go with the cute gyro.

It's not an operating room. Preliminary preparations should be accomplished in the ambulance or by emergency medics before the Gyro arrives to help sustain life in route. The medic on board can perform life sustainable procedures and the Gyro can have augmentation equipment to enhance saving survivors life's until advanced procedures can be administered in the emergency room or more advanced clinics or hospitals.

Cause they're cheaper, easier to fly and safer. And of course the visibility out the "cockpit" rivals a freaking jetpack.

Because they are safer than both if flown correctly. Easier to fly than a chopper,. Excremely safe in rough weather and cheaper.

That's why it has front door, the pilots could easily dump the patient outside in case of emergency

That is why the patient is strapped to the gurney.

They can land within 6 feet.

Horatio Jones the patient acts as copilot

@@MrKnutriis ha ha! 😁 Just looked at it again and there was an attendant behind the pilot but there seemed to be very limited access to the patient. A very cheap medivac Gyroplane would seem very attractive to some nations.

Then he must be paid as supporting actor !@Viggen

Currently the drive non critical patient s in a ambulance s that cost more than this aircraft by about $50000 it ties up the ambulance for hours both ways. This is flying at 80-100mph cruise faster than can be driven on the roads in my country,. It fly's in straight lines so even if dropped off and picked up by ambulance at each end this is cheaper faster and much smoother compared to both road ambulance and fixed wing even in strong turbulence.

@@cameronlapworth2284 You missed my point. I was simply being humored by the fact they had a man who was there to demonstrate and he played the sick man. As for the effective efficiency of the real thing … I will not venture on technicalities I have no notion about… Cheers.

@@vincent7520 no probs

LOL. "Girl" claims to fly.

No, because this is not a helicopter.

@Júlio quanto mais helicópteros mais mortes quanto mais mortes melhor para a funerária , todo helicóptero é frágil e cai. E muitas mortes.

@Robson Wilhan também mas os helicópteros são mais feitos pilotos negligentes e o índice de que é um absurdo portanto todo helicóptero a 70% de certeza de queda

Why with proper training experience it is known to be the safest way to fly period

That was a crash dummy. Still, ear protection should have been applied in this scenario.

What is special about it? It is an autogyro or gyrocopter, and was invented in 1923 by the Spanish Juan de la Cierva

Actually in WW2 they tried to mock shooting one down with a spitfire (get gun camera footage). They couldn't get it in their sights it would turn on the spot and they'd over shoot. The German U-boat s had fold up glider version s that they assembled on the deck and towed behind when on the surface at 1000 ft to spot enemy ships in the distance.

A lot less expensive, and the pilot doesn't have to be that good.

Ian Burnett And other places for emergency.

It's not better, but could be useful in certain areas.

Low maintenance cost being one.

Ian Burnett - They Could Buy A few of these, for the price of 1 Helicopter. And, it "Could Land" on Some Hospital Roofs, too!

Only with a very strong headwind I think.

Land in feet. Very short takeoff. Cheap. Safe.

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100 mph

lightrose100 You can't land on a hospital roof either!