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Agreed. While we know that autogyros do work, it takes real courage to attempt an explanation of how on a high-profile channel like Kermit’s. Serious kudos to Kermit and Dayton!

ETA: Sincere apologies to whoever's reading... I wrote the previous comment with an "understanding" of autogyro aerodynamics that I now know is wildly wrong. I fell into the trap of thinking of the autorotating blades as making a pancake-thin parachute, but with that force of moving air that would go into billowing out a flexible membrane falling in a column of air redirected instead into the rotation of the blades arou ar aro aro I can't see. I've gone blind. I have flipped light switches i my house and I see noghing. The more I think about autogyros the darker it gets. This is bad send hekp

Thanks everyone for all your concern and all the help finding me these last few days! It's sure good to be back on dry land and GREAT to see again! Autogyros sure are complicated! It turned out that I'd reconciled the difference between the retreating blade being a flat-plate airfoil vs. an asymmetric Bernoulli airfoil at the same time as I contemplated hinged blades and that's when I lost my sight. I crawled for days and days, but luckily I toppled from a cliff and fell into the sea where the shock of the cold water stopped me trying to understand autogyros! As I floated there helpless and gawping sightlessly into the sun I slowly came to understand how autogyros just "spin all the drag up." Gradually and by degrees shape and color came back to me and I swam to shore. While we know that autogyros do work, it takes real courage to attempt an explanation of how on a high-profile channel like Kermit’s. Serious kudos to Kermit and Dayton!

As birds fly their wings change shape in a similar fashion.. this has springy construction that acts like their muscles. You have different forces as he explained.. it's the natural flexibility of the material.. I am developing a bio plastic that is flexible, but much lighter than fiberglass and even carbon fiber.. non proprietary technology.. I worked for a subsidiary of Boeing doing factory floor automation software and database development.. manufacturering high tech fibers for aerospace.. and Raytheon building infrastructure, like oil refineries in Saudi.. we are looking at this technology and I am also developing an atmospheric flyer using the coander effect

Question: has anyone tried uneven number of rotor blades... like 3 or 5... there's a lot less heterodyne in the airframe with the uneven, but balanced forces.. Great information.. muchas gracias señor

120° is a very good way to get even forces around a circular vector.. this is very good information for me to work with... much appreciated 🙏 Peace ✌☮

In addition to this two-bladed main rotor systems are not subject to the effects of ground resonance as he has unknowingly misled you

opposite direction twist for the gyroplane

Nice! Can't wait for part two. Never flown an autogyro. Looks like something that needs to go on the list.

Not sure of that answer, but you can go to Dayton Dabbs (my instructor) website and see if you can find the info there. www.lightsportgyroplanes.com/index.php?feature=5&ID=DD01

I am sorry, but a gyro rotor has its blades pitched up between 1-2.5 degrees, UP not down. Your name says it all, you would come a buster, correction you wouldn’t even get airborne, as your rotors wouldn’t even spin up. Man don’t comment unless you know what you are talking about.

Thank You! YES

He isn't assuming, he's asking informed questions and interacting with his instructor, which is the best way for a smart, educated person to learn. Do you not realize the immense level of his aviation experience and knowledge? He doesn't need a three hour lecture geared towards the dumbest common denominator of student; just getting to the relevant part.

This is worst kind of student. Did some reading ahead of time to show off. Won’t listen.

Hmz, makes me think his "autogiro" needs "tires", whereas our "autogyro" could do with a set of "tyres"... Ah well...

We went for the vintage spelling alla Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Company and Autogiro Company of America. In the end, all it comes down to is ... "You say potatoe and I say potato."

AHA! 'Tis the Juan de la Cierva (Spanish) spelling. Well, I guess if it was good enough for H.F. Pitcairn, it's good enough, period. I may just use the i spelling for antiques and reproductions of his models, however. I normally just call them gyrocopters anyway, as that name even predates autogiro by a good ten years. :)

So Mr. Weeks have you had any prior flight experience? LOL

Kermit just learned more in 15min than you would have taught him in 2 hours. Don't try to fit him to a typical uninformed student's mold.

@@zacklewis342 Is there an atypical uninformed student? If he's already informed, why is he taking lessons? Why involve the instructor in the video at all? I think my point was clear. It would be a better video if he let the teacher teach (not that I am a great teacher or that Kermit is a poor student). It would give a better picture of what autogiro lessons are like if he let us in on the actual lessons.