"Dan" wrote in message
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ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:
In article , Ron Natalie
says...
Denny wrote:
Why wouldn't it auto rotate?... The blades are no different than a
gyrocopter's fixed blades and they autorotate...
I can confidently predict that like Moeller's Skycar they will still be
pitching it to "investors" for years to come... PT Barnum was a
genius..

There's no clutch on the blades to allow them to free spin in case
of the engine loss of power.

Right you need a clutch to disengage the engine and the ability to change
pitch
elstwise your in a heap of do do :-)

Chuck S

Chuck, many readers of this NG aren't up on technical jargon like "heap
of do do." Please keep it simple, perhaps "deep kemsche" would be better


Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Deep what????