What a very UKRM way...

Yeah fair call on the low and slow. But I dunno. I just still want
power to those blades. And something in the back of my brain still
reckons to get enough lift for a heavy liquid load, you would need
powered blades. The OP mentioned that they are nimble and easy to fly.
I have a feeling by the time you built one big enough for that sort of
lift, those characteristics would be lost. But I am not an
aeronautical engineer. I only flew a glider once. I want my horsepower

 

I'd like to have a go flying one - perhaps even get a licence and buy one.

If only for 'just in case'.

 

I can just see you as the chosen one. The mighty hand of vengeance,
sent down to strike the unroadworthy.

 

The "Gyro Captain". Yeah, I can see that.

 

Kevin said:

That's a structural load test. There's no way that thing would fly with
1600 kg on board [1]

Fly or Take off

Don't the planes that pull signs have to
pick up the signs with a tail hook after
take off?

 

As you can probably guess, I'm not bothered either way: lift is lift
however it's achieved!

I didn't mention it before because it wasn't a pure gyro, but I could
dig out that Great British Failure, the Fairey Rotodyne, which was
really a compound aircraft, but did use autorotation in transition
from hover to horizontal flight and I think the rotor provided part of
the lift in the cruise. I could also mention the current CarterCopter
technology demonstrator, which is another compound aircraft.

As a result of this thread, I did a bit of Googling and there's also
this, which would probably lift half a tonne or so:

http://www.groenbros.com/

It's a bit more sophisticated and therefore costly than a simple gyro
because among other things it has collective pitch control and can do
jump takeoffs.

Can you guess that I'm a bit of a gyro enthusiast?

 

How well does he handle venomous snakes?

 

There are a few flying schools dotted around - I had an intro
lesson/joyride in am MT-03 at RAF Benson, somewhere a bit west of
London.

Unfortunately, I'd already had a similar experience in an R22, so the
gyro flight, whille being something I'd wanted to do ever since I was
a teenager, was almost a let-down.

 

he juggles very carefully...

 

I did sorta yeah

Some of those aircraft on that link look more like concepts though
rather than built. Plus as you say, they are compound, not pure gyro.

 

<nudge>

I've already slipped a MM reference in.

 

All I said was I'd like to learn to fly one - just in case