The Chayair Sycamore is a South African autogyro, designed and produced by Chayair of Musina. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 178. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485XTacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16, page 192. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015.
Design and development The Sycamore features a single main rotor, a two-seats-in-tandem open or optionally enclosed cockpit, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a four-cylinder, liquid and air-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition turbocharged Rotax 914F engine in pusher configuration. The Subaru EJ22 is optional.
The aircraft fuselage is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing and mounts a diameter Advanced Kinetics rotor. The tailplane features five vertical tail surfaces for improved directional stability. The enclosed Sycamore Mk 1 version has an empty weight of and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of .
Operational history By December 2012 one example had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration in the Experimental - Amateur-built category.
Variants Sycamore Mk 1 Enclosed cockpit version Sycamore Mk 2000 Open cockpit version
Specifications (Sycamore Mk 1)
References
External links
Official Sycamore Mk 1 photos