Control Line Helicopter

I saw a control line helicopter in an old issue of model airplane magazine. It looks more like a gyrocopter. The model engine provides the forward power. As it picks up speed the helicopter blade spins and does the lifting.

Does anyone know where to get plans to build this gismo.

I love to experement. This thing might be a fun project to build and experement with. It may not fly like an airplane but its different. It might be a total waste of time too.

Has anyone ever seen one of these fly?

If its anything like the control line race car I had once it will be worthless. I had to sweep the asphalt parking lot for an hours before running the car and if it ran over anything thicker than a dime the car would flip end over end. lol

I believe that was an autogyro, design named "Otto the Gyro". Builders/flyers that I am aware of are Jim and Todd Lee, though there were others. Both are in the PAMPA directory if you'd like to contact them.

Jim Lee's "Otto" is a balloon busting killer!!!

Dang it! I just noticed that I'm an "unregistered user" (again). Leonard, how do I go about getting re-re-registered?????

Mike (No "Handle") Keville

When I saw "control line helicopter", for some reason I remembered the robot voice from an old Allan Parson's Project album:

"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.."

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"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate."

>"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.."

That's from Pink Floyd. I should know, I've
seen them perform it live. Twice.

Plans for two autogyros can be found in the files section of the Yahoo controllineflyingforum group. Here's the link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/controllineflyingforum/

I think you need to be a group member to get to the files.

Also, the quote is from the Pink Floyd Album Meddle. It's the entire lyrics for the first song "One of these Days".

>Plans for two autogyros can be found in the files section of
>the Yahoo controllineflyingforum group. Here's the link:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/controllineflyingforum/
>
>I think you need to be a group member to get to the files.
>
>Also, the quote is from the Pink Floyd Album Meddle. It's
>the entire lyrics for the first song "One of these Days".
>
>Jim Amos

You're right. The APP robots sang "Freedom, freedom, take the wall away. Freedom, freedom, we will not obey.."

Still, I'm thinking a true CL helicopter might be a bad idea!

C*x put out a plastic one. It actually sort-of works! Kind of fragile, though. Modeled after the Cobra gunship, as I recall.

MY HELICOPTER IS CALLED A BI SLOB , ITS THE NEATEST PLANE TO HOVER AN ENTIRE FLIGHT, LOTS OF FUN.

>C*x put out a plastic one. It actually sort-of works! Kind
>of fragile, though. Modeled after the Cobra gunship, as I
>recall.
>
>Larry

Larry,
I've got one. Its modeled after the Apache gunship. Its a real hoot to fly. It falls out of the air about a second after the engine stops. And if there is any wind you better be on your toes as you come around into it. Talk about balloning up.

Somewhere around here I have the plans (contruction drawings actually) and some parts to a control line autogyro that shows a Baby Cyclone ignition engine in it. Its called a "Chupp" if I recall. This one is different in that the blades have true flapping hinges and the control is by tilting the rotorhead for and aft. I've built and flown several R/C autogyros so someday I'll build this one.

I have photos of a gyrocopter that flew at a contest in New Bedford,Mass in 1965 or 66.
I'll have to check the back of the photos. It flew, but that was being nice. It remained airborne for several laps, no speed. I remember the pilot spinning the prop by hand, then it would taxi and finally take off. I think the front engine was an O&R or a Forster. I remember Len Gadomski was the club president then, and it was at this contest I first met Gene Schaffer & Bob Hunt. We flew at the local airport, lots of room. I believe the pilot was Leon Schulman, but don't quote me on that.

>I saw a control line helicopter in an old issue of model
>airplane magazine. It looks more like a gyrocopter. The
>model engine provides the forward power. As it picks up
>speed the helicopter blade spins and does the lifting.
>
>Does anyone know where to get plans to build this gismo.
>
>Gary Weaver

There was a thread on Autogyros earlier this year.

http://clstunt.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=read_count&om=4143&forum=DCForumID1

There was some material that was worthwhile and some not so worthwhile. Control Line autogyros are interesting things.

There was some information that I posted on that thread for articles and plans that have been published for these things. This is from my previous post:

There was an article in Model Builder Jan 95. This is basically a profile scale of a Japanese autogyro. For .35 and .36 engines as this was specifically built for Profile Carrier before the rules were changed that prohibits autogyros in Carrier. The name of this was the Kayaba KA-1.

Dick Mathis did Otto the Gyro in Model Airplane News, Jan 74. For .29 to .35 motors.

The Whirly Bird by Peter Burrows was in Aeromodeller, Feb 92. 40.5 inch rotor diameter for 3.5cc motors.

The Gyration was in Aeromodeller, Jan 76. 37.5 inch rotor for .09 to .25 ingines.

I think there were more CL Autogyros published. These are what I could find in my files.

Hope this helps