5 WORDS.....

Horizontal Stabilizers ARE ABSOLUTELY necessary....

No amount of pilot skill will prevent a push/roll/bunt over event if the
gyrocopter experiences a zero g event.......and it only have to experience it
for a second or 2 to roll over all the way....

How many hours of flying do you think you could get away with before a nice
downdraft was gracious enough to give you said zero g event?

In line thrust helps alot and it probably doesnt hurt to get anal retentive
about it being as "inline" as possible...

But ya STILL NEED that stabilizer.....

Without that stabilizer.....you might as well just pop in an untested
autoconversion and fly over the rockies for testing....probably about as
risky....


go to the fly gyro forum....look at all the great stuff written by craig
wall....its a REAL eye opener...


sad thing is I get the impression that gyro's COULD be some of the safetest
things around to fly if they werent being flown (and built) by absolute morons
without stabilizers....


do an FAA database search and read all the gyro accidents....doesnt take too
long actually.....virtually all the accidents are rollovers and its darn hard
to rollover when you HAVE a stabilizer....without one..well....thats a
different story...


take care

Bll