"flybabybuilder" wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
"Ed Sullivan" wrote in message
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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:12:26 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote:


"Ed Sullivan" wrote in message
news How about this puppy

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/Vi...vidId=51023&ca


It's a gyroplane with folding rotor. Just goes to prove that the patent
office is doing any "prior art" checks before they give the things out.

The liability of driving a prop propelled motorcycle on public streets
is
frightening.


Short of commuting in a tank it sounds like a commuters dream.


Well let's assume you make it to the street where your office is and land
safely. You then have to shut it down fold up the wing and then restart
and
drive it down the street where somebody IS going to walk into the prop.
This
will probably happen during the first week.

Niche commuter market, indeed. Take off from your exurban neighborhood
fifty miles from downtown (have a look at the Dallas Class B chart
sometime). You land on the roof of your building, or in the parking
lot, having designated it as a private heliport.


Two problems first, it's not a helicopter it's a gyrocopter, their vertical
takeoff and landing abilities are not the same. Second, if you are going to
land at you own helipad at your building why have the motorcycle like on
rode ability.



Would NOT want to turn quickly on the road, though. Three wheels and a
high CG spells "tippy".