MIA ROTO TRIKE™ RC Microlight Autogyro Airplane - A 3in1 Super Slow Flyer
Channel: MIA Micro-FLIGHT
Date: 2021-10-25

This is an up scaled version of the original MIA ROTO-TRIKE™ RC Microlight, Autogyro, Airplane, model I designed more than 20 years ago.  The original had a king post with cables,  and   tail stabilizers, which in later versions I removed for simplicity,  more modern appeal and higher performance.  Later on, I also decided I could also extend the tail section and add rudder and elevator control and replace the flex wing with a rigid regular airplane wing and turn it easily into an RC airplane. A 3 in 1 model, basically.  I will demo the new gyro and airplane conversions in  a different video. 

My original intention after realizing I could utilize the same control setup for the RC microlight as an RC autogyro was to simply swap the fixed wing for a rotary wing and I did that in the original video, of course this is easier said than done,  but I had to come up with a versatile control head design that would allow the swap from flex wing to rotary wing easily.  In my quest to design not only for performance, durability and realism , trademark features of MIA Micro-FLIGHT, I must have done over a dozen control head iterations. Seem a lot but not really that is how I work, it is almost like trying to beat myself at a game of chess, I look at mechanical components from every angle possible so not to leave unturned stones, so to speak, in this process. This allows me to arrive at a mechanical system that is SOLID and unbeatable with my own trademark/signature design features easily recognize able if you have been purchasing MIA micro-FLIGHT Products. 

While I prefer more high aspect ratio wings and more realist true weight shift microlight control for speed and higher performance, sometimes just floating around with a lazy, doscile, super easy to control wing is also enjoyable and this is where the MIA ROTO-TRIKE™  fits in beautifully, not to mention the fact it converts to the other models easily also. 

Original MIA Roto-Trike™ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ratvDV2nCQ&t=56s
2019 based on my Original MIA Roto-Trike™ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh1fMMGR04Y

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