"Joachim Colling" wrote in message
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To me the gyrocopter principle seems to be much cheaper (and safer?)
than the heliocopter. Why has development of medium and larger size
gyrocopters stopped? And smaller are also very few?
Joachim Colling

They take the worst aspects of fixed wing and rotary and combine them into
one machine. A helicopter is useful because it can perform vtol. However
this is at the cost of energy economy, high maintenance and slow forward
flight. The giro can't perform vtol but still suffers the downsides.

If I try very hard, I might just about see the point of the carter copter,
but that's not a full-time giro.

Regards
Andrew


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