AutoGyro Calidus - Calidus Gyroplane Description

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Pilot Operating Handbook

Calidus

SECTION 1

GENERAL

AutoGyro_POH_Calidus Revision 4.0 – Issue Date 17.JAN.2019 1-4

1.7 Description

General Characteristics

 Gyroplane with nose gear wheel chassis

 Framework manufactured from inert-gas welded stainless steel tube

 Front aircraft structure is a GRP/CRP monocoque bolted to the airframe

 Two-seat tandem configuration (monocoque design)

 Main landing gear with GRP (glass fibre reinforced plastic) spring spar and hydraulic

disc brakes

 Extruded aluminium rotor

 Rotor head controlled with push-pull control cables

 Rudder controlled with cables

 Rudder and stabilizer surfaces made of GRP (or carbon fibre)

1.8 Technical Data

Length: ...................................................................................................4.78 m

Width: .....................................................................................................1.73 m

Height: ....................................................................................................2.77 m

Empty weight:....................................................................................... 262.0 kg

Payload: ............................................................... 188.0 kg/depends on MTOW

Take-off weight/mass (max.):.......................................450 kg / 500 kg / 560 kg

Fuel tank capacity: .................................................................................... 39 ltr

(with optional auxiliary fuel tank installed) ............................................... 75 ltr

1.9 Rotor

General (Standard Rotor RSI (orange end cap), RSII (red end cap) or RSII TOPP

(blue end cap))

Type: ........................................................... 2-bladed, fixed pitch, free to teeter

Material: ............................................... EN AW 6005A T6 aluminium extrusion

Blade profile: ................................................................................. NACA 8H12

Rotor diameter.......................................................................................... 8.4 m

Rotor disc area ....................................................................................55.4 sqm

Rotor disc load (at 450 / 500 / 560kg MTOW) ..................8.1 / 9.1 / 10.1 kg/sqm

See Type Approval Data Sheet