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Already flying few weeks now.

$55k painted. $50k unpainted

You are welcome to contact us abid@silverlightaviation.com

In this section of flight, TN to Florida, just 3. Total 5 stops from Indiana to Tampa, FL. Same on the way there.

Yu can't do a 2000 mile cross country and not have a couple of hours in that are like that. I tried to keep any roads or anything I could get close but it is impossible to have that all the time.

What angle exactly do you mean? The fixed pitch of the rotor blades? That is set by the clamping machined straps from hub bar to blade. The machining has to be quite close and precise on the hub bar and the clamping parts. If there is a tiny bit of difference, that is taken care of by rotor track and balancing using a multi-axis balancer but that has to be done by flying on the specific machine. We use PB4 balancer. You have to also know what to do with it not just buy the equipment.

Precision machining of the pitch blocks on rotor blade clamping area and dynamic balancing takes care of that

304. I think I got an e-mail from you. Obviously, I cannot tell you every detail, but you asked in the e-mail about fatigue on stainless steel. It is all about engineering for the material and controlling manufacturing processes like the welding, so you do not create pre-mature fatigue in the metal. Bottom line unlike the German machines ours have not had a single fatigue crack anywhere. Germans are very good at electro-polishing and making the metal look very shiny but that means nothing when your mast cracks around the engine mount because the basic design and welding process control is incorrect.

Very glad he was successful. Great lookong gyroplane - blue is my favorite color. Has anyone installed a Viking engine in an AR?

Yeah sorry. I was not going to walk half a mile in hot summer to the runway and record him taking off. We all know what a gyroplane or airplane taking off looks like. No drama there.

Have asked Tim if he could make some simply quick videos or vlog but he was saying it takes a long time to edit etc. and he does not have the time. He said he'll try to make some quick ones.

Mr. Gyro: I'm assuming you meant to urge removing the stick from the rear cockpit when using the rear seat to store a BACKPACK. If I'm correct about that, I'd be interested in why you recommend this. What hazard is reduced by removing the stick from the rear cockpit? Thanks in advance. Clueless student pilot here.

@@zlindriver7632 Yes, the back stick should be removed any time there is no qualified pilot in the back seat. During take off, the stick has to go all the way to its furthest back position. It stays there for few seconds, but it has to be able to freely go there. If you have a large bag, or a person with a large belly on the back seat, the stick may be prevented from going all the way to the back, and thus impeed the safe takeoff. Additionally, if the pilot tries to muscle the stick back with a large bag on the back seat, the stick may get lodged in the seat belt supporting the bag, and be prevented to go back to its mnormal position. So, removing the stick on the AR-1 takes two bolts (7/16ths wrench) and about 5 minutes of your time... just remove the back stick...

@@lagyro So no fat GF???

@@silverlightaviation I am saying no more...

why? Would you like me to calculate the loads for your airframe also?

And yet not in a single crash the Aluminum block has ever torn off. We are not making tanks. These are aircraft. We do not solve problems that do not exist. The name of the game is liten and simplify through engineering with proper safety margins for the application at hand. Not complicate and tankify.

@@silverlightaviation I totally get it, I am just wondering is all and I know it is not a tank or warbird. I realize the problems more than likely do not exist 100 percent. I am just thinking of safety margins etc and redundancy. There are lots of types of aluminum. If its aerospace stuff I would be ok with it and I am sure it is. U have a nice machine and I like it.

@@user-ev2qo1hj1g In Aerospace the most common Aluminum alloy is 2024 for sheet metal. 6061-T6 for milled parts and also 7075-T6 for higher strength parts like leaf springs. All our milled parts are made from 6061-T6 and safety factory is in excess of 2. Usually certification requires a safety factor of 1.5 from limit load values.

@@silverlightaviation Thanks for the information. I have been watching lots of videos and I would have no problem in your machine now that I understand a few things.

Those bolts can handle over 60 G's. You should be more worried about the Aluminum structure the bolts go into. They will break before the bolts. But I understand all people who don't know always worrying about the bolts instead. The largest danger in all aircraft is always the bolt that drives the aircraft. That one breaks apart really quickly. Biggest failure point :)

@@silverlightaviation I totally believe you but an airplane wing with more than one bolt holding a wing on I would think could possibly keep flying if one worked out or failed. Those bolts in the wing are static and not spinning like on a gyro. I know they have keepers, but still. And many planes have ballistic parachutes on board, especially LSA. On the gyros it just seems to me that there are maybe 4 bolts or more in a rotor head that if one failed its goodbye. One would think that the bolt surely is strong enough to handle the G loading or any other stresses. But what if it was manufactured with a crack or void internally. I am not sure if they are magnetic particle inspected. Just saying is all. The other thing is the bearing or bearings in the rotor hub assembly. Are they monitored for heat like maybe a helicopter. What if one of the bearings got hot and scorched and it froze up. I use to farm and big combines would burn a bearing up every so often and throw a drive shaft. When u take the plastic or carbon body off of the gyros they just don't seem like much is all to me and don't seem redundant in some ways. I would love to see testing on them and strength numbers. I would love to buy and own one once properly trained. Maybe I am paranoid, but man they just seem fragile for having all of that rotor spinning and experiencing Gs under load on that little square tube going to the top with two little ears to hold a bolt and hold the assembly on. I am sure the hardware is aircraft grade stuff. Maybe you can chime back please so I can learn. Thanks

​@@user-ev2qo1hj1g There are bolts and pins in many airplane wings that if one broke, you are pretty much done. So you should never fly a Cessna 152, 172, 182, Searey, RV12 and many others. You just do not see them because they are hidden away and only checked on an annual inspection if that. At least in gyroplanes and trikes they are right there for you to inspect. Aircraft use AN hardware which follows DOD military spec. The difference is precision and quality control compared to regular hardware. Otherwise grade 5 SAE hardware is just as strong, though thread sizes are longer.

@@silverlightaviation Thanks for the reply and I have to agree, you are right. I never though about the easy inspection aspect and the grade 5 stuff is great. Never new that about the thread sizes. Thanks for responding back so I can understand. I want to get into a gyro now. I just moved to Fl so I am in a good state for that.

@@user-ev2qo1hj1g You are in one of the best states in the US for light aircraft flying including gyroplane flying. There is GFTA gyrocopter Flight Training Academy in Sebastian, FL. There is Raul Salazar in Valkaria, FL. There is me at Zephyrhills airport near Tampa. There is Greg Spicola at Tampa North Aeropark in Land O Lakes, FL. Nothing in Miami. There is also a flight school in Pensacola (well technically Alabama but just across the border). There are about 12 AR-1 gyroplanes just around the Tampa Bay region

It's just because I wanted to. Why the heck not :). Nah. One side roll is favored due to torque and on the other side roll is opposed by the prop torque. So you need a little help on one side versus the other

Your setup must not be proper. The angle it goes up etc. Also your front wheel probably moved sideways a bit. You have to put something that stops your front wheel from being able to turn. As I recommended not just front and back stops but 1x1 side stops and then go around the tire on top with a strap so tire does not come up. This also acts in stopping your rudder to move (like a gust lock) because rudder is linked to the front wheel and that is also something you want in long trailerng

@@silverlightaviation As you recall, your were there, there were 2 2x4 boards around the front wheel with the 1" strap. The strap wouldn't stay on the center of the tire. Once it slid off the tire, it cut through the strap on I95 with the nose lifting off like it wanted to fly, restrained by the tail supports. I'll post the pic on the SilverLight owner's face book page of the before when I left ZPH.

Thanks. Are you in India or Pakistan? Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone there that I can confidently recommend for gyroplane training. I am happy to train you if you can get a Visa and come to the US. We can provide a letter to help with the Visa. I test fly every new gyroplane that goes out. I also test fly airplanes and trikes I am involved with. Engineering design and flying is my life.

Do not know what a uniball holder is. There is a metal plate on the back side of the fiberglass that the rivets are going into

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Haha

You should have gotten one yourself... ;)

@@lagyro I’m a video shy guy 😜

Hello Henry. I'm very happy for you sir. Enjoy your machine and enjoy life. You're an inspiration. Unfortunately, many people are under the wrong impression that we can't enjoy ourselves as older people. You are proof that they're very mistaken. Many blessings.

@@workout8614 I’m so lucky to be retired because I can fly 😊

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I think I've spotted an idiot.

True. They were not doing the laser programming to take out the little notch left when laser starts. They had to change the code to do that

Yes have something very similar in Red in stock. Asking $118k

@@abidfarooqui-sla3301 darn. How I would love one!

@@allwortht send me an email

@@abidfarooqui-sla3301 sent you a email. Did you receive?

Not taking off with an autogyro definitely will.

@@nickvledder Yes stick on the ground. Taking off in any aircraft can kill you for sure if you do not know what you are doing