Granville (Gee Bee) Racing Gyroplane of 1935

[jzichek]

Check out this short entry at url=http://retromechanix.com/articles/aerospace/rotary-wing/granville-racing-gyroplane-1935/]RetroMechanix.com[/url] on the Granville Racing Gyroplane project of 1935:



The study appears to be a conversion of the Gee Bee R-1/R-2 Senior Sportster hybrid into a two-place autogyro. The drawing is from a clipping found in a NACA file at National Archives II in College Park, MD and apparently originates from the February 1935 issue of Aero Digest. Unfortunately, the clipping did not include a caption or article giving further details on the type. If anyone has the full article or additional information on this study, feel free to respond here or on my site.

-Jared

[Stargazer]

Oh! Hadn't realized you'd published it here as well! I actually reworked the three-view plan (for inclusion here) into a more compact (and horizontal version) after removing the circle supposed to represent the rotor in flight and the outlining of the red decoration. This way it is a much more generic aircraft that modelers can use more easily.

I hope you don't mind, Jared!

[Joe C-P]

Wow, take a plane with poor visibility for the pilot and make it worse.