Autogyro circumnavigation of the globe

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Countdown Begins!

We have heard from Norman, who returned to Japan last week, about his preparations to resume the world's first circumnavigation by an Autogyro. He describes in his own words the hurdles he has to overcome, created naturally or by bureaucrats, to return to the air for his pioneering flight.

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At the end of May another arctic spring time approaches and with it we have, once again, a seasonal chance to fly across the Bering Sea from Russia to Alaska, my only available routing to get across the Pacific Ocean. For the second year running I am now poised to recommence and (hopefully) complete my circumnavigation attempt, to return home from the other side of the world. I have recently again travelled out to Shonai Airport, Yamagata Prefecture, N.W Japan where G-YROX (aka “Roxy”) has been waiting patiently “en route” for my return and from where we shall soon depart for the remotest, vast wilderness of the Russian Far East. This section of the flight is by far the most technically challenging given that the settlements to be visited are very isolated and without roads in the northern latitudes (no roads equals no vehicles and thus no need for fuel stations…), so working the logistics for food, accommodation and fuel are of prime importance at the moment. There are “airstrips” (of sorts…) in just enough of these settlements to allow a transit to be possible and thankfully in our favour at least a Gyro can perform very short take offs and landings using some fairly unprepared surfaces.

No alternate landing field from Japan to Vladivostok

The Russian Authorities are currently making final checks with the en route airfields to make certain that they are currently open, secure and available (after the long winter of isolation) and ready to receive our flight. Once we have the final go ahead from Russia then we have to wait for the Japanese Authorities to have their turn at playing with the “red tape” machine, to process my exit clearance to allow me to fly out of Japanese airspace. (This can be a fairly lengthy exercise, lasting several weeks, drawing on our previous experiences of flight applications…).

Finally, once the bureaucratic “made by man” permissions are all in order, I can then give some (considerable) thought to the physical “made by mother nature” permissions; primarily those of Climate and Weather patterns en route for the lengthy open water crossing of the Sea of Japan. As we have seen, the climate has already dictated a wait in Japan for 9 months since the last summer season, but the weather and crucially the wind (both strength and direction) will of course have the final say “on the day”. Our maximum operational range on longer flights is usually around 450 Nautical Miles. As the “crow flies”, the straight line distance airport to airport from RJSY (Shonai) to UHWW (Vladivostok) is “only” 442 NM however, with (man-made) en route airways corridor protocol and entry procedures for Vladivostok air traffic control the actual flight from Shonai will actually work out to be around 460 NM…

It therefore follows that although I have a considerable margin of fuel reserves (my absolute range with full tanks would be something more like 525 NM) this only translates to around an hour of extra endurance in the air. To encounter a strong headwind on a flight of this overall distance could easily add an hour onto the journey time and this, remember, is a flight across the sea with no alternate airfields en route. It is therefore vital that the predicted winds on the day are either a nice tailwind to give me a helping hand or, worst case, a cross wind which has minimal effect on journey time, for or against. Thankfully predicting the wind (at least in the short view of a day or two in advance) is a well practised science and one which gives reasonably accurate results.

Therefore, in dealing with the wind, as with the lengthy bureaucratic process, I may simply have to sit and wait for the correct conditions to occur….

Cheers

Norman

Looking decidedly chilly, Norman prepares to do some engine runs at Shonai Airport, Japan this week.

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It is great to hear from Norman and we at the Gyrox Team are gearing up ready to bring you all the latest news as it happens from wherever Norman is during the final stages of his record setting flight.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Roxy is Airborne Again!

We at the Gyrox team are very happy to announce that yesterday, 28th March 2012, Norman was able to take to the air again in his autogyro, G-YROX (Roxy); the first true flight since last July!

Roxy has been in storage at Shonai airport, Japan, since the circumnavigation was put on hold last autumn because of weather conditions and bureaucratic delays. But as the weather is set to clear and the bureaucratic problems are solved it was time to dust off the rotors, put all the bits back together and following engine test runs earlier this week, take to the air again.

As we saw on Monday, the supposed first day of test flying, the weather still had a bearing on the schedule as a massive snow storm grounded everything, but yesterday the snow was cleared and Norman was at the airport early hoping to get some comprehensive test flights in.

But, as is the case with flying and some would say...Murphy's Law, this first flight was delayed as a heavy rain storm crossed the area. It was strange that the whole of Japan was rain free except for that patch of sky over Shonai Airport!

The weather radar shows Japan is clear except for the area where Norman is.

At least the airport staff let Norman wait out the rain in the airport office where he was able to keep warm and enjoy the hospitality as well as being supplied with cups of coffee.

Norman watches the rain outside the airport office window, flight suit and hot coffee at the ready.

But the rain did clear and it was a relief for Norman to finally don the famous red flying suit, start the engine and set the rotor turning and for the first time in many months Roxy taxied out to take to the air again.

Norman taxies Roxy out onto the rain-soaked taxiway at Shonai. Note the piles of snow still hanging on.

And, as though there had been no long term storage at all, Roxy lifted off for the first time this year. Not ideal conditions and the Japanese aviation rules kept all flying within the airport zone boundary but Norman put Roxy through her paces with some extreme manoeuvres aimed at testing all airframe and engine specifications.

Norman and Roxy take to the skies for the first time this year.

This type of flying gave the assembled Japanese media and press who had arrived to chronicle the first flight, an impromptu airshow and hopefully helped the cause of the Autogyro for local flying.
Following an hours test flying Norman brought Roxy gently back to earth and following a press interview tucked Roxy up for the night, happy in the knowledge that she had performed perfectly and that there were many more flights to come.

Roxy arrives back at Shonai after a successful test flight.

One interesting titbit of information followed Norman's return to his hotel for the night. While he was in the middle of sending photos and information about yesterdays flying back to us at team HQ, Shonai was struck by a mild earthquake! Norman in his indomitable way joked about how much the building was swaying...

Norman will be flying each day (weather permitting) from now until and including the 30th March.
Expected times for flying each day are...

02:30 to 03:30 UTC (GMT) and

06:30 to 07:30 UTC (GMT)

Make sure you check into the on-line tracker to see his flights live, link below.

We will give updates and hopefully more photos of the flying each day.

The Gyrox Team

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Monday, March 26, 2012

No Flying Yet!

For those who were expecting to see Norman and Roxy flying today and have been watching the Spot tracker for some kind of movement, we have an explanation, sent from Norman himself, as to why there is a hold-up and for once we can tell you that it is not caused by bureaucracy!

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Update on What is Happening

The Weather in Tsuruoka and at Shonai Airport has taken a decided and sudden turn for the worse...

Consider this first picture, taken just after I had put the Rotor back on Roxy a couple of days ago - you can see the arrival of the regular ANA flight from Tokyo in the background and the big piles of rapidly melting snow...

However now take a look at the conditions we were faced with yesterday - supposedly one of the first days that I have permission to fly…this is the same ANA flight at its stand (and was subsequently delayed because of the severe snow storms). While standing in the hanger we actually heard Thunder up above! - this was actually a very snowy thunderstorm…

So it was little wonder that Roxy and I have had to sit it out for a little while longer before taking to the skies...

Norman and Roxy raring to go, but still firmly stuck on Terra Firma as guests of the Shonai Airport Fire Service.

…the good news is the forecast is improving n the next few days so keep an eye on the tracker….

Cheers

Norman

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Roxy re-awakens after long Japanese Winter Hibernation

Following a very long Japanese winter we at the Gyrox team can now happily announce that things are starting to happen in the Land of the Rising Sun. Norman has sent us an important update detailing the efforts to get Roxy ready for the resumption of the circumnavigation. This is what he has to say...

I am very pleased to announce that Roxy (aka - the current long distance FAI World Record holding MT-03 Autogyro G-YROX) is this week planning a return to the (hopefully) clear blue skies of NW Japan after a lengthy enforced winter Hibernation period.
The aircraft has been waiting patiently in Japan for the onward route through to the Bering Sea (via the Far East of Russia) to thaw after the long Arctic winter. Great care has been taken to keep the aircraft fit for purpose with the engine given regular exercise every few weeks during the snowy conditions that have seen several metres of snow fall in this relatively remote region of Japan’s Yamagata Prefecture. Roxy however has been tucked up safe and sound in a small alcove in the back of the fire station building at Shonai Airport.

Now with spring rapidly approaching, the time has come to prepare for the coming flying season and we will now see a flurry of activity around the airport during the next two weeks. Through the winter, to assist in taking up the least amount of room in the fire station, the rotor blades were removed as can be seen in the photograph below which was taken during a recent engine run…note also the now melting snow in the background…

Shonai, Japan - Feb 2012 and the engine starts first time!

The blades will be cleaned and inspected prior to putting them back on the rotor head and the aircraft thoroughly checked over prior to embarking on a series of short flights around the immediate vicinity of the Airport. Flight restrictions from the Civil Aviation Bureau will likely mean that the aircraft will be confined to flights within approximately a 3 km radius of the airport boundary, however considering that this is a highly capable and manoeuvrable Autogyro aircraft (and not a Jumbo Jet), this amount of space is ample to provide all the airspace needed to perform the requisite flight checks. Indeed it could even be said that an Autogyro could easily perform all its manoeuvres actually within the confines of the airport boundary fences!

The plan is to allow the aircraft permission to fly 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the afternoon each day between the 23rd & 30th of March. However not all of these time sessions will be needed for check flights and local weather or other air traffic may have further limiting implications. It is expected that Roxy will exercise for about 5 hours in total during the week. The intention is to have the Satellite Tracker active during the these short flights, to allow the testing of the online tracking page and to allow our many European followers to practise their skills at getting up in the middle of the night to watch, live, a little yellow aircraft buzz about on the other side of the planet!! (Though of course, some may just elect to check on the overnight progress at a more leisurely pace, over the usual morning cup of coffee some hours later instead…)

Norman gives a thumbs up to the newly awakened Roxy.

It is such a rarity for this type of Aircraft to be allowed permission to fly in Japan that it may cause some considerable interest locally. On our first arrival in Shonai (inbound from Oki Island last July) I simply made a straight in approach to the airport and was cleared to land immediately. The aircraft was heavy with the circumnavigation luggage and generally, in these circumstances after a long sea crossing of many hours and into an unfamiliar airport, I will make a very steady and straightforward approach and landing (so as to not unduly worry the Air Traffic Officer on duty in the Control Tower). The gathered reception committee waiting to greet my arrival that day therefore saw very little of the unique flight characteristics of this aircraft while it was in the air. There was no need to stop, mid air and perhaps descent vertically, no need for tight turns, steep practised forced landings perhaps across the runway rather than along it, touch and go fly pasts and a host of other manoeuvres that would look quite odd to any spectator who is used to observing the motion of a more conventional aircraft (or even a helicopter…). By putting the aircraft through its paces (though always remaining fully within in its normal flight envelope - as UK Autogyros are not allowed to perform any “aerobatic” manoeuvres) next week, local Japanese onlookers will be treated to an impromptu display of a flying machine that will take to the air like no other aircraft they have ever seen!

GANBARO! ROXY….

Cheers

Norman

**Ganbaro! is the Japanese rallying cry that means “go on, you can do it, we are with you!”

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The Gyrox Team will make sure that where possible we will announce flying times and make sure links to the Spot Tracker appear on the various GGG sites and we hope everyone is feeling the excitement we are at the thought of Roxy and Norman taking to the skies again soon.

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Friday, February 3, 2012

The GGG Essential Guide to:- Japanese food that looks too good to eat…Beware the non-slip Gravy!

Welcome to the third installment of Norman's series of informative and tongue in cheek guides to the quirkier side of Japanese life.

The GGG Essential Guide to:-

Japanese food that looks too good to eat…Beware the non-slip Gravy!

Think of culinary Japan and you automatically think of Sushi, Chopsticks, Soy Sauce and perhaps an irate Chef chasing you down the street brandishing a fearsome looking meat cleaver… no, sorry, that last stereotype is more likely to belong to a UK Chinese Restaurant at maybe around Pub closing time!!
I refer to Chinese loosely in this context as, in the UK at least, the word is often used as a catch all description for any restaurant (especially a “take away” as opposed to a “sit in”) that just happens to have vaguely Oriental dishes on their menu. This is regardless of whether the dishes are actually from China or even anywhere else in the Far East... After all, gastronomic delights such as “Chips**, Cheese and Curry Sauce”, deep fried “Battered Pineapple Rings” or “Pickled Boiled Eggs” in a jar don’t immediately spring to mind as examples of rare delicacies transported from the mystic East aboard some ancient Chinese Sailing Junk. (Unless, of course, the eggs happen to be 600 years old and served up in a Ming Dynasty vase…)

** ”Chips” in the UK can be known as French Fries elsewhere and Potato Crisps in the UK can be called Potato Chips elsewhere - confused ? - you soon will be…

However, it is still possible that some of the slightly more authentic dishes on the menu may have had, at least in part, some Japanese influences in the past, even if only in a very broad brush comparison. Many “Oriental” dishes of course share the same Far East staple ingredients of Rice and Noodles (as does Japan) and these are served up in numerous permutations of styles and flavours. Such are the bewildering array of variations that can be conjured up from these two base ingredients that, just as the Inuit people of the Polar regions have their 40 odd different descriptions for types of “snow”, so too is there a huge variety and diversity in the numerous descriptions of all things “Noodle” and all things “Rice”.

And herein lies the big problem….How can you possibly individually describe 150 items on your menu if 75 of them are best described as “Noodle Thing” and the other 75 should be called “Rice Thing”??

In the UK, the ubiquitous “Chinese” Take Away has an answer to this dilemma, by devising an enormous gaudy plastic Menu board which can easily take up the whole of one wall in the brightly neon lit shop. This Technicolor masterpiece, which describes each dish on the menu in exacting detail, can initially stun the customer at first glance, suddenly confronted them with this Wide Screen vision, a menu delivered in full HD but alas with no surround sound (unless of course someone is singing loudly in the queue behind you…).

Where to look first? How can you ever find the Cheesy Chip and Gravy section hiding in this lot??

Initially, the whole lengthy manuscript (seemingly of Magna Carter proportions), has to be studied in bewildering detail by the squinting (and perhaps swaying) occupants of the recently emptied public house next door. This all quickly becomes quite a cumbersome and laborious arrangement you might think… but not so, because once the preferred dish is eventually located on the menu board, the complex system’s trump card can be played. The auto-swaying customer can simply lean on the counter (for support and perhaps also to reduce the swaying a little…) and prepare to deliver their order. Like a goldfish with only a 3 second memory, the customer at this most crucial juncture in the transaction need not even remember one jot about the details of the food they are going to eat. There’s simply no need as the system will provide the answer. They only have one thing to remember and that one thing is… the Number….the number that the dish appears on the menu list. Sorted! Gone from the memory is actually what you are ordering and shortly going to eat (and/or possibly wear when spilt down the front of your shirt...), like an automaton delivering a speech with a synthesised voice, all you need to remember to say at the appropriate moment is - “I want that Noodle thing…Number 143…and a can of fizzy pop” *** (plus perhaps a small side dish of Cheesy Chips as a Hors D‘oeuvre to eat on the bus on the way home…)

***it’s preferable to use your best Robot / Dalek voice for this bit if you are reading the text out to someone - however equally best not to use this same voice in a real Take Away restaurant or you may well snap the patience of the Head Chef… with the Meat Cleaver…shouting Exterminate! Exterminate! as he leaps at you over the counter…

So to cut through the sensory overload of making a concise, distilled and informed choice from the huge menu on offer (and perhaps also “multitasking” with some swaying, singing and squinting thrown in) the most efficient system to use is to simply to order by number.

Unless that is, you happen to live, say, in Japan...

By now, you might well have guessed that the Japanese (as we will see in many of these GGG Essential Guides…) have, of course, managed to go one better. Gone are the complex and gaudy plastic menu boards, gone also the more “trendy bistro” chalk and blackboard menus. In Japan, all is neatly replaced by an altogether more adventurous, 21st Century, artistic solution.

Rather than trying to read the whole menu and having to imagine what the different dishes might be like, the Japanese regularly enjoy the fantastic concept of being able to actually see what they are going to get before they order it. A three dimensional menu showing exactly what you are going to get is often placed, pride of place no less, in the front window of many Japanese Restaurants. Represented in incredibly detailed plastic resins, there are row upon row of highly accurately detailed food dishes, all of which are available on the menu inside. By using plastic replicas like these you simply don’t have to use so many words to describe the ingredients of a dish and In this way, not only the look of the food is reproduced (after all, a good photograph in the menu could do this adequately), but the physical size, composition and texture of the meal can also be accurately depicted. It is very much a case of “WYSIWYG” (What You See Is What You Get).

The real challenge of course, is not the simple dishes on the menu, Green Peas and Carrots after all are perhaps not so hard to reproduce in plastic.... Where the real skill comes in is trying to represent things like Ice Cream Sundaes or delicate seafood salads.

Here the art of the plastic food designers goes into realism overdrive! Nothing is too much trouble to reproduce for, just as the human eye can quite easily spot an obvious flaw in a painting, the eye is also drawn to any slight inaccuracies in a plate of reproduction food. You could say that the overall illusion is only as good as the worst item of plastic food on the plate. With this in mind, you soon find yourself searching in a bowl of Salad for the dodgiest looking item, the one giveaway thing that breaks down the illusion of realism….but more often than not there isn’t one!!

Such is the attention to realism that even the condition of the food is considered, the Gravy looks runny, the fruit looks to be freshly washed and even the condensation on the inside of a (plastic) glass of (plastic) ice cream is modelled to give the illusion that the glass is very cold (when of course all the plastic is actually sitting at room temperature as seen below…)

Not to be left out, even the kids are well catered for in Plastic!

As “WAON” the flying dog says here on the side of his bowl, delivering your dinner by aeroplane “is a lovely way to eat” and what kid wouldn’t want their food to land on the table piloted by a dog sitting in an open cockpit, complete with ears a-flappin in the wind! The Japanese really are the Kings of Cute!

However, If there has to be a down side to all this artistic ingenuity, I have managed to find it…On one occasion, yours truly was faced with the slightly embarrassing situation in a restaurant of knowing exactly what I wanted to eat from looking at the food in the window, but then, and this is the crucial bit…not being able to describe this order to the waiter inside the restaurant! The result was I had to then drag the poor waiter outside his own restaurant so I could point at the desired dish in the window! Luckily he saw the funny side of all of this and proceeded to produce the meal laid out exactly as I had seen it previously shaped in plastic! Quite amazing…

I’d better warn you that this last picture is of some real noodle soup and I am pleased to report that it was very tasty!. The Dish is called “Udon” and to eat it you are given chopsticks (yes, even to eat soup….!) and a special wooden ladle called an “Otama” which gives its name to “otama-jyakushi” which is Japanese for a Tadpole! (because of the round body and long handle / tail).

See you all for another “GGG Essential guide” for use in everyday Japan very soon…

Sayonara! Cheers N.

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Another great insight into the side of Japanese life most of us never see. Keep checking back for the next installment and also for the latest news on the resumtion of the flight which is fast approaching.

The Gyrox Team.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The GGG Essential Guide to:- Japanese Techno Toilets and Other Ingenious Innovations.

Welcome to part 2 of Norman's series of informative and tongue in cheek guides to the quirkier side of Japanese life.

The GGG Essential Guide to:- Japanese Techno Toilets and Other Ingenious Innovations.

The Japanese are well known around the world for having a real flair in developing novel and unusual gadgets - and for me the one device that demonstrates this highly innovative spirit most keenly is the (previously) humble toilet seat.

Cold winter weather in Japan often makes for a decidedly chilly atmosphere when visiting the 'Smallest room of the house'. This is especially felt where the Japanese, through adopting an entirely different philosophy towards heating the home, will put much emphasis on keeping the individual person warm rather than the entire house. Therefore, rather than employing a grand central heating system that can easily leak heat away to the outside environment, localised heating of some rooms or areas within a room is often used instead. For example, an electric heater is often found permanently attached to the underside of the dining table to keep your legs warm while you are sitting eating meals, this is combined with a thick table cloth that covers the table and also reaches to the floor all around the diners thus acting as a very effective blanket around your legs to keep the heat in.

Alternatively, an electrically heated rug stretched out on the floor can also help to keep your feet warm (as remember of course, you have no shoes on inside the house or restaurant). Further, rigid corrugated metal hot-water bottles (though now being replaced with more user friendly hard plastic variants) can be used to preheat beds.

However, the quiet, reserved, no nonsense toilet seat remains my favourite example of this philosophy in action...as to have a pre-warmed seat waiting for you before sitting down on a cold day is very much appreciated indeed!

This being Japan however, to only achieve the desired warming of the seat with an integral, fully embedded, fully adjustable, thermostatically controlled heating element would simply be a waste of a great opportunity to showcase some real innovative thinking in the design process. Once a 'Chief Techno Toilet Designer' (CTTD) has committed his manufacturing company to developing an easy reach control console, to be positioned alongside the seat (and one which Captain Kirk would be most happy to see attached to his Commanders seat on the Bridge Deck of the USS Enterprise) then the full gambit of other 'must have' items can also be accommodated and factored in as further luxury upgrades.

You then get a plethora of available options...full seat temperature control (as standard)), big flush - little flush (the Eco option). water pressure and temperature settings for an integral bidet shower unit (complete with hot air drying - which is a feature perhaps not for everyone's liking!), volume control for background running water soundtrack and/or music (presumably some suitably pleasant 'Chamber Music') And as if these were not enough extra features, not only the actual seat gets high tech makeover treatment - one techno loo that I happened to encounter while visiting Kyoto had an additional sensor that both turned on the light and then made the seat lid flip up as you entered the room! Such attention to detail!!

Hair Today - Gone Tomorrow...

Whereas the UK has brought us fantastic innovations such as the Dyson Vacuum cleaner to sweep the floors of your local barber shop, the Japanese have once again outshone the competition with this very handy gizmo for catching hair as soon as it is cut, thus eliminating the need for even getting the Dyson out of the cupboard!

In the UK this product would no doubt have a trendy techno name such as the 'Hair Catcher 3000' or the ,Catch-All-O-Matic'.

You Have A Spare 5 Minutes?

Once you have your hair nicely trimmed what better than to be able to also give your face a bit of a massage, perhaps while you are standing in the busy bus queue in town, waiting to go home from the barber shop. You would be the envy of your fellow bus passengers if you were suddenly able to produce the 'Face Roller-O-Matic' from your inside pocket for a quick 5 minute workout.

Alternatively if a bit of bothersome cut hair has sneaked down the inside of the neck seal of the Hair Catcher 3000 while at the barber shop, you could also quickly whip out your 'Back Scratcher-O-Tron' to scratch away that irritable itch...

Sushi and Satin...

Not to be left out, innovative products for the animal kingdom have also been well catered for in Japan. What about a nice Kimono style leisure suit in which your cat can lounge around the house? No problem sir! The zoomed image on the right features a nice pink shoulder padded neckline (that is assuming a cat has shoulders!), a lovely satin finish and on the left picture the highly appropriate Lucky Waving Cat logo. Any unfortunate Mice that would happen to meet this 'at home' cat would not necessarily risk being caught and eaten, rather, they would be at far greater risk of being invited in and offered some sushi or a fishy canape washed down with a Martini cocktail...Miaow!

See you all for another 'GGG Essential Guide' for use in everyday Japan very soon...

Cheers
Norman
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Norman will be giving us another look at the quirkier side of Japanese life in the very near future. Keep watching the blog, website and Facebook pages for the latest news of the resumption of the flight. We will post any updates as soon as we get them,

The Gyrox Team.

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