Welcome to the exciting world of sport rotorcraft! Humans have created many marvelous ways to fly - wings (with or without engines!), envelopes filled with hydrogen or hot air (ballooning), and powered parachutes ("paraplanes"), but nothing beats trading in any of this for a set of whirling rotorblades. My goal is to introduce you to the sport with a heavy emphasis on gyroplane flying under the Part 103 ultralight regulations. Since many of the issues with respect to ultralight gyroplanes are common to both Part 103 and Experimental category machines, there will be some general information as well. For your convenience, links are supported to other major rotorcraft web sites.

Dated listing of new postings since June 1997.

Gyroplanes enter the ultralight mainstream with the formation of an Aero Sports Connection Rotor Wing. This link will take you to the official Rotor Wing web site.

The complete text of FAR Part 103 - the "ultralight" regulations.

The Gyrobee is one of the better-known ultralight gyroplanes, primarily because it is the center-piece for most of the writing I do as Ultralight Editor of Rotorcraft magazine. Click here to find out more about this aircraft.

A collection of previous Rotorcraft articles and Rotorbyte BBS postings.

Digital instruments and flight recorders for gyroplanes and other ultralight and microlight aircraft.

None of these gyroplanes are ultralights, but this photo collection will give you some idea of the variety of models that characterize the sport today.

Here you will find a limited selection of other sites devoted to rotorcraft or ultralights.

I am getting an increasing number of questions about my Digipod digital instrument panel and digital flight recorder. Hopefully, this page will answer most of them.

Although my flying partner, Don Chubb, and I have converted completely to ultralight gyroplanes, we didn't start that way. Recently I ran across some old pictures of our first ultralight - a 15 hp. weight-shift Quicksilver. Some of those photos are posted here...

Having started down the road of digital video production, with a long way to go(!), I will be posting some on-line videos of the Gyrobee.

Our local PRA/ASC-affiliated club here in Michigan, dedicated to support of sport gyroplanes and other recreational aircraft.

Strangely, I get some requests for some information about the "face" behind this web-site. Here is a personal profile if you are really hard-up for new pages to surf.
 
 

If you have additional ideas (within reason!) for what I might include here, drop me a line on e-mail and I will try to respond.