I have a friend that flies one. Nice and stable not to mention fast! He's had it for about 5 years and so far no reliability issues. He even helps with the local county search and rescue. If I was younger and wanted to build cheap turbine time I would most definitely have one. Rotor inertia would give me pause at my age.

Gaseous figures appear out
From another site, not my post, & some time ago.
I feel David Lyons accumulation of experimental hours in his Helicycle is nothing but phenomenal! David bought his helicopter with 102 hours on it as a means to acquire 1500 turbine hours to help land an offshore helicopter job. Is he ever going at it! I started a thread " Helicycle nearing 1000 hours", not too many days ago when he had 982 hours. I blinked and he is at 1038 hours as of last night!

The Helicyle in the video around post #40 was built by Stan Foster in Illinois and he flies it almost daily . He has built up quite a few hours on it and says it has been trouble free and dependable . He built it himself and the workmanship is meticulous. I think if you google "Helicycle Hatchery" you can find the construction process from start to finish.

I am the builder and flyer of the Helicycle in the video of post #40. I never posted here but have over 150 videos on YouTube...It took me 2.5 years to build it, mostly waiting on the shipments of the parts. I started flying in September 1st, 2010. . It is simply a pleasure to fly, smooth, fast, and the easiest machine I have ever had to maintain.
I heard it all while building it..
...you will be working on it more than flying it...Thats definitely been proven wrong to me!....its sensitive to fly......hey, if this fledgling pilot can fly it, anyone can! . ..the Solar T-62 won't be reliable..that turbine is awesome!....


It sucks fuel....
they got that one right.
13 gph.

This machine has been a dream come true. Its always ready to go on a whim, and I have made many cross country flights in it. Every flight was completed back to my home base
Stan

It is nice to read you here too, Stan :ok:

Must admit that my positive opinion on Helicycle and home or kit
rotorcraft building was mostly influenced by your recent WEB
shared experience... Good work, bravo :D

Stan welcome to the forum.

This may be of interest to engineers and those who like Queen -

CH7??
 

I think the Helicycle looks great as does the CH7, sadly I doubt that we will ever see them in the UK. Seems crazy that we can get microlites and even gyrocopters through the net but not helicopters. Why is that???

Was it only me who looked at the thread title and was expecting to see a wonderful Heath-Robinson thing like a bicycle with rotary blades?:)

No you weren't the only one expecting a heath-Robinson lash up ;)

For Red Hill Phil and Old Skool Alex:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...cle-copter.jpg

No details sadly :(

Tried that, doesn't work.