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The Gyroptere

I've been saving this hoping to find out more. But a discussion has broken out about McCutchen Machines and I figure the time had come. These two pix and all I know came from the back of Sept. '97 Popular Science . There seems to have been an article about it in the Sept 1922 issue. The accompanying text explains that it is French and " modeled on the whirling of a winged maple or sycamore seed"


New Stuff From Flugsport - 19 August 1914
Albert Locker put me onto this, and I acquired it by the clever expedient of sending too much money to an eBay dealer. The text is in German which I ran through a cheapo OCR and then fed to the Babelfish. The result wasn't very enlightening.

But  "Satisfying attempts did not take place so far yet" is clear enough.


Also I make out the following with a little help from a German/English dictionary
 "The inventors of this new flight apparatus placed themselves the function the following problems to solve
"1) direct takeoff and direct landing
"2) and move themselves cans stop L in air after free will
"3) exceedingly slowed down fall with motorbreakdown

I am surprised that the Gyroptere was constructed before WWI..


 
 

I wouldn't put too much faith in this drawing. In Flugsport the "wing" was much too short and I lengthened it. No doubt there are other errors. But I like the intrepid pilot. He looks like he drove a trolley for his day job.

!! MORE PAPIN & ROUILLY ON THE WEB !!

JC Carbonel has made a fine static model of the Papin et Rouilly and you can see it at..
http://modelbox.free.fr/analyses/MS2002_10P/SCRH_Papin/index.html
and click the thumbnails Please don't try to type all that. Just click the underlined mouthful and take a look.

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He has published some excellent information on the original, complete with a plan and  pictures of soggy attempts to get it to lift off .It may not have flown but it sure did make some exciting watery commotion. http://modelbox.free.fr/photoscopes/Papin_Phot/index.html
Don't Miss This

The text is in French - but don't loose heart. The robot at http://www.freetranslation.com/web.htm speaks excellent broken English. Enjoy the rest of the site by clicking the Northrop flying wing at the top of the page

The McCutchen Machine
This is the free flight flying device that started the conversation that influenced me to post the Gyropter stuff. It has appeared in various incarnations in the model magazines over the years. This one seems pretty succinct. There is a complete article in March '84 Model Builder. I recommend the wonderful website below. Poke around and find the youths with the freeflight Dynajet.

Here's a link sent to me by Paul Dunlop for a book of a rocket powered MCutchen type machine.CLICK

A McCUTCHEN WEBSITE (CLICK)

A book of not quite McCutchen machines (Click)

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