Rara-Avis Sim Bulldog Autogyro

[hasegawa]

Morlaix – Ploujean Airport (LFRU) - Aéroport d'Ouessant (LFEC)

It's not my fault. I have a soft spot for unusual aircraft. The thing appeared at the Aero fair in Friedrichshafen in 2015 and is said to have flown shortly thereafter. In the meantime it has become quiet about the thing and the designer and owner is said to live in a car today and somehow eat canned food. The thing is hard to describe. It kind of has the flair of a Tiger Moth, the exclusivity of a Bentley, but it's made of plastic and it has a wooden instrument panel like a Mini Cooper. It's hilarious, a little wacky, and the price tag was beyond good and bad. British, isn't it?
As a model for the MSFS, you can get this thing for the price of a good pizza and a dark beer at Just Flight and you can do what we all don't know about the real thing. You can "fly" it.

https://www.justflight.com/product/rara ... g-autogyro



















Final note: I'm afraid my girlfriend wouldn't want to fly this thing with me, much less over water. She's, like ethnic Russians, a bit conservative and doesn't much care for such jokes.

[Splitpin]

"It's not my fault. I have a soft spot for unusual aircraft." ...I'm in your club, and I love that ...blue thing

[cowpatz]

I would only fly something like that in a simulator!

[toprob]

Kind of cute, but it does remind me of that 'drinking bird' toys which keep tipping forward into the water. So, no, I wouldn't fly it over water either.

[cowpatz]

I have lost count of the number of times at Ardmore that I witnessed gyroscopters, conducting high speed taxy trials, reduce themselves back to kitset form. Fortunately, most of the operators didn't do the same thing.

[hasegawa]

It's a strange thing, but in the history of aviation, there have been quite a few strange flying objects that were not immediately referred to as "UFOs".

[cowpatz]

I'd classify an autogyro as a "UFO" - Undesirable Flying Object

[hasegawa]

I should remember that.