Clancy,
The line tension was a little lighter on the auto-gyro than on the Heat. hmmmmm.............
Ray--the rotation of the rotor kept tightening up the screw. I really wanted to see that rotor spinning man. I tried 3 flights and each time the rotor would spin for the first half lap then the screw got to tight. This week I'm going to make a new spindle that won't bind.
Rich had a Golden Hawk that was way better finished than my gyro and technically he should have won the craftsman plaque. I flew his Hawk in stunt and came in 3rd. The plane did a wingover, inside loops and lazy eights. If I hadn't run out of sky on the outside loop and had I gotten landing points we would have come in first.
Greg Bossio flew my BlackHawk Models PT-19 to third place in the Racing Event. Greg is holding the PT-19 wearing his stunt hangar t-shirt in the background of the photo and in the foreground is Rich swapping the engine from his Atomic to the Golden Hawk for our fling at stunt.