Unfortunately, my time in the Army and Georgia came to an end in late 2018. I miss my Georgia gyro buddies, but, most of our family lives in Texas and I accepted a teaching and coaching job back in Texas. So the flights I have been taking since are all in Texas.
During 2018 we started using 4 Blade Luga and NR Props in several different Tangos including mine. Unfortunately they did not handle the stress. Here are pics after I took a round trip flight from Lockhart, Texas to Blum, Texas early in 2019. NR Prop cracks.
It was a long trip with strong winds. I called 800-992-7433 (800-WX-BRIEF) for a Standard briefing before the trip. The briefer told me the winds would be 20-25 knots from the surface to 4500 MSL. However, on the trip back they were 35 knots or stronger as a direct headwind. I made it back to Lockhart right at twilight!
My next long cross country trip was from Lockhart to my home town, Dublin, Texas for our 2nd Annual Gyroplane Flyin. Pictured is Lucky McBeard (AKA Brad Stanford), Dublin Airport (9F0) manager.
Later in the spring, I flew down to 1.4 hours to (50R-KBEA) Beeville, Texas to visit fellow gyro pilot and friend Ben Cadenbach. Ben and I built our Gyros at the same time. It was a fairly warm day and Ben, who is a pretty big guy gave a ride to another large person. With fuel and all, the Tango carried over a 600 pound payload!
Here is the link to more photos and a video of the trip. Beeville 2019
I also flew all the way around San Antonio in April of 2019 to a Young Eagles event at EAA Chapter 35 from there south to Castroville for fuel and back to Lockhart.
Check out all my cross country flights as recorded on Naviator.
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