This is a [TECH] tag and I appreciate the technical comments and I  
ignore the
nanny comments.  I really don't care what the cow herd considers a  
good , safe idea....
I will make sure what I do does not endanger other pilots or  
individuals and beyond
that, it is my life.   Even if you nannies think otherwise.

I may be proved wrong .... if I am not, I will certainly rub it in  
your face.
In a friendly fashion , of course   bwwaaaa ha hahahhhaaa

Gus

>
> On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>> There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, but no old and bold  
>> pilots.
>
> So they always say.
> But, there is at least one.
> Or there was at least until a few years ago.
> At that stage he'd been flying for 70+ years - much of his early  
> flights in
> auto-gyros.
>
> He achieved it this way, as Carl suggests
>
>> First become a master of a standard flying machine, then think about
>> modifications.
>
> But in a manner that few on earth have managed.
> He was recognised with an award also given to Hughes and Lindberg.
> He flew mail autogyros off rooftops in the 1930s and was still  
> flying his
> own light airfcraft sometime this century when I discovered his name  
> in a US
> flying club newsletter. He's probably dead now - but his story is  
> among the
> most amazing.
>
> I say 'old and bold' as, amongst many other things, he recounts  
> regularly
> flying loops and rolls in an autogyro at airshows. The only one who  
> did, he
> says. Indeed. That's the exception that proves the rule - a good way  
> to die
> if you are not the best in the world at it - as he probably was.
>
> [A good trick is to dive an AG and then pull out too steeply so the  
> rotor
> cone inverts excessively and the blades strike your tail assembly.  
> Having no
> rotor (and or no tail assembly) makes an AG descent "tricky".  Time  
> for a
> ballistic chute. No rotor makes an AG ballistic chute more viable I  
> imagine
> :-).]
>
> I'd love to leave you the joy of tracking him down from the above
> information alone, but a good summary to get you going is here
>
>
> http://www.historynet.com/captain-john-miller-test-pilot-of-the-autogiro-and-the-grumman-j2f-duck.htm
>
>      Russell
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