Airgyro Aviation blog

Just thought I would mention that we have added a Frequently Asked Questions page on our Airgyro Aviation website (www.airgyro.com). Hope it is helpful!

Troy Atwood, a friend of all of us at Airgyro, was Married on September 19th in the Airgyro Aviation Hangar. It was a unique setting for a wedding ceremony. I thought the black shirt with the Airgyro Logo that Troy was sporting was pretty cool.

Thanks for inviting us to your wedding!

We had a great time at the Utah Rotorcraft Association (PRA Chapter 2) get together this last saturday. We had SIX gyros there. I thought that was quite the accomplishment. Four of them were flying around after the BBQ. Some of those that joined us traveled from pretty far, so we appreciate being able to spend the day with them. We have some beautiful Gyros here and I think everybody who attended had a great time.

Click on any of the photos to see them BIG.

This next picture is Airgyro’s SparrowHawk flying around. For those who were waiting, it is now ready to go. So call us to get on the schedule to recieve flight training.

Below we have Mike Brownly and his Butterfly Aurora gyroplane, Brian Bird and his SparrowHawk, and Curt Pitman and his Modified RAF.

I thought this shot was pretty cool of our sparrowhawk flying through the clouds.

I love it when awesome wives (example: Karen Coon) give their husbands an awesome birthday present. Marc Coon was given an introductory flight in the SparrowHawk Gyroplane. From what I understand, he likes to try and fly with his Snowmobiles quite often, so this wasn’t way too out of his league. I think he got a little more hang time on this one though. He seemed like he had a fun time. Thanks for flying with us today.

AirUtah Aerial and Commercial Photography did a photo session of the Spanish Fork Industrial Park recently. Some of the businesses that were included in these photographs are LEI, Ford Dealership, Fastenal, and Young Living.




And Here is our Beautiful Spanish Fork Airport!

Howard Hughes has been hard at work over in Australia with the Outback airplanes. He has also been making some informative videos for us to enjoy and to help us understand the quality and thought that is put into the manufacturing of these airplanes. So here are some of the videos:

Outback Inflight Adjustable Prop


Australian Lightwing Factory Tour


Outback 4 Airplane

So here is an update on the progress of the Sportcopter 2. The Lycoming engine version of the Sportcopter 2 has not yet been flight tested, but I know the subaru prototype SC2 has been torn down and is currently being put back together with they new engine and new cowling. The biggest challenge for creating the cowling for the new engine is that we went from a water cooled to an air-cooled engine. This wouldn’t have been a problem other than we have some really nice aerodynamic cowling over the engine which restricts the airflow to the engine. So Jim Vanek had to redesign the cowling to provide the necessary air for the engine to have optimal performance.

While they are getting the prototype ready to go, the guys at the Sportcopter factory are also making good progress on getting a couple of the first production Sportcopters together. I have a bunch of pictures that will show you some of the progress. The machines are looking great and we are grateful for our awesome customers who have been very patient. Your patience will pay off.

The Sportcopter 2 is strong!

These foot pedals are slick

Different stages of the Sportcopter 2

Short video I took while flying in the beautiful Utah Valley. This shows the Spanish Fork -- Springville Airport in January.

Time:          7:34:06 AM.
Place:         Spanish Fork Airport (U77)
Visibilty:     200 Ft.
Temp:        !!!! COLD !!!! 

Around the Airport

I haven’t done any posts about the Sportcopter 2 yet, mainly because I really don’t have a good update on the status of the aircraft. We will hopefully have a better update soon.

I did want to post a couple of videos that Nate Oldham (President of Airgyro) took while on his last visit to the Sportcopter facility last fall. They have been on youtube.com for a while, so here they are:





Also, here is a video done by Shawn Adams from Rotor-Head