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Comment by Txconfederate on February 6, 2012 at 11:52am

Oh lighten up Phantoad we are just kidding. We love all of you Aussies. I used to live in Queensland and have 2 children there.

Comment by Phantoad on February 5, 2012 at 5:17pm

These machines have been around for years, they are called Gyro-copters here in Australia. You Americans seem to think you invented everything. WAKE UP..

Comment by Txconfederate on February 5, 2012 at 2:44pm

when pigs fly

Comment by Mike the Bike on February 5, 2012 at 1:53pm

Oh dear, trying to re-invent the wheel!

Comment by nedj10 on February 5, 2012 at 1:42pm

they also misrepresent its take off characteristics, autogyros require a runway, they are not VSTOL aircraft...people gonna look pretty stupid slamming into the van in front of them when they try to take off in the middle of traffic as the news article implies :D

Comment by Michael Hauser on February 5, 2012 at 12:42pm

Nothing new here...just an autogyro, that's been around since at least the 50's.   The Air Command looks much lighter, using aluminum, and not what appears to be a welded cage here.   The Lightning Sportcopter starts at about $10,000 less than this.   I wonder about the ability to make it legal to ride on the street...now that's a problem.   I don't see how it can be..for instance meeeting EPA regulations..using a two stroke engine..and what about anti- collison requirements?  Time will tell!

Link to the Lightning:  http://sportcopter.com/Gyroplanes/tabid/124/Default.aspx

Comment by GrumpyNH on February 5, 2012 at 11:53am

Looks like a gyrocopter to me. Hasn't that already been patented?

Comment by sotso on February 5, 2012 at 11:31am

so he watched mad max thunderdome and put a motorcycle tire on the front, good for him, he stole someone elses idea, what a retard

Comment by Dynasurdus on February 5, 2012 at 11:07am

Those were featured in the James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice' in 1967.

Comment by blind neep on February 5, 2012 at 10:43am

It isn't a trike. It's an autogyro and I was in my friend Jim Potts' a few times around 1976

/77 . He used it to do the first cross Channel flight on it.

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