Wallis Autogyro Plans Professional Looking With

He stated that he never did like the heli head on it, but Im sure it would be invisible whilst flying.

After fooling around with several spseudo scalish designs of Little Nellie, in past years, I finally decided it was time to make one that I wanted to enjoy myself and perhaps others might too.

I am a big fan of 007 movies and very fond of helicopters and autogyros for the challenges and rewards they provide, so this is a special project that has been waiting for the right moment and motivation.

I think anyone that shares a similar interest will probably find this thread interesting.

One of my biggest motivators in this project has been my unsuccessful attempt to find an RC Scale Autogyro of Little Nellie that would fly and be true to detail of the real machine.

I spent many years looking for one, only to find the ones that made an attempt of mimicing Little Nelly, suffered from poor detail or flight characteristics.

Nevertheless credit should be given to those early models, that were hindered perhaps by lack of a better technology.

So much technology and magic to make anything happen Give that some thought.

I must also point out that I have no special drawings or plans, which made this project even more challenging, since Ive had to to do quite a bit of my own research and most of the drawings I had to create from scratch, for this model came by painstakingly scaling some very low resolution photographs of the real machine, I had, at the time I started this project.

Within the past month I stumbled on some new photographs that were posted by a Rich (safelandings) another autogyro enthusiast in this forum.

Walis has done. This helped greatly to clarify some of Little Nelly aircraft details that were obscure to me in the past years for lack of clear photos and information.

So here it goes, this is my rendition of this MIA 2009 Little Nellie - Scale RC Autogyro.

The main frame is all carbon with plastic fittings, has working pedals and a tempt flight gauge panel which I will make it better, right now it is just cardboard for test fitting.

The frame although workable for flying, it will be replaced by the other frame from my other profile Little Nelly, which has built-in LG suspension and dampening and has a very cool rotor head,which I will show when I get to that stage of assembly.

I cut the mold plug for the vac formed body and engine cooling ducts, shaped it, sanded it, finished it and shot some preliminary bodies in yellow and silver, assembled it with the windshield, and painted the lower section all in one afternoon and evening.

Wallis Autogyro Plans Professional Looking With

Tail fin is painted foam from the original prototype but I am going to mold it next so they match and are nice and shiny professional looking with the body.

I am also going to mold also an engine cover as soon as some motors arrive, but I am happy so far with the way it looks.

He has sent me his original drawings to help me out and has also given me ideas through many letters.

I did ask him about the accuracy of the dreaded CG thrust line, he said not to worrry as long as your thrustline is above the CG and well forwards it should fly.

He started going on about more important things like centre of drag.I was lost then He did also mention that the closest to seeing a Nellie fly was a Micromold version, infact he did have one in his museum but some low life pinched it.

I will be writing again to him this week, would you mind if I send him a photo of your work My model will only be semi scale to start with as Im sure it will have teething problems.it will be good to see how yours flies Great work again Regards Rich.