Re: "Rodd-O-Gyro"

Brenda on Fri 1 May 2015 - 22:24

roddie wrote:My wife (God bless her soul..) comes down into my workshop and notices the Rodd-O-Gyro for the first time.. "What's this"? she asks.. "Oh.. just something I've been working on" I reply.. She picks it up.. and exclaims.. "it's heavy"... (thanks for the words of encouragement hon..)

You out to prove bricks can fly if you apply enough thrust? lol!

roddie on Sat 2 May 2015 - 10:48

Brenda wrote:
roddie wrote:My wife (God bless her soul..) comes down into my workshop and notices the Rodd-O-Gyro for the first time.. "What's this"? she asks.. "Oh.. just something I've been working on" I reply.. She picks it up.. and exclaims.. "it's heavy"... (thanks for the words of encouragement hon..)

You out to prove bricks can fly if you apply enough thrust?

Were you and I ever married? Laughing

I got some odds and ends done over the last day or two. The gear struts were just pre-bent ones I had for the previous photos.. and were 5/64" (.078") music-wire. I bent-up a new gear of 1/16" (.062") wire and cut 1/16" ply-bracing for mounting to the firewall. This will make it easier for bushing the wheels I plan to use.

Oldenginerod on Sat 2 May 2015 - 23:01

roddie wrote:
The rotor-blades.. Here is where I'm unsure when using conventional propellers; whether to mount them facing into the airstream.. or away from it. My thinking is; to orient them where they will be "more" resistant to turning. This may seem to be a strange approach.. but I want them to "catch" the wind at a given AOT to provide lift. I don't know whether facing toward or away will create the most resistance in a freewheeling configuration... or whether the contra-rotating props will even work. I've tried to design this thing to easily try an infinite number of configurations. It only needs to become airborne.. and I'll consider it a success.
I'll probably end-up with a tether-car!!

The rotor blades are wings, so to gain the most lift they need to have the convex side facing up to provode lift. It's not the pitch of the blade that provides lift, but the airfoil (aerofoil in my language) section as it passes through the air. The lower side, being concave, would make better use of the airflow to be able to spin the "wing" through the air at maximum speed, providing the greatest lift from the airfoil section. So Roddie, from your pictures, I would suggest that the rotors would be far more efficien in providing lift if turned over the other way.

Rod.

roddie on Sun 14 May 2017 - 15:31

Now that I have some parts to assemble more reed-valve engines.. I hope to get back to this project. I'd gotten a lot of it built... when I was avidly working on it last. I'm not going to fuss much further with my unproven theories. I need to try to balance it for a C/L lead-out connection.. and see if I can get it off the ground. Stay-tuned.. Laughing

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