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Paul, I am far from being a safety zealot, but the mechanical portions of most "homebuilt" auto gyros scare the crap out of me. One little AN3 (10-32) bolt lets go and the whole shooting match is over. For the last several years a company has been demonstrating tiny helicopters called mosquitoes. They are cool as hell, but once again, the thought of one of the main/tail rotor linkages taking a duke due to fatigue scares the poo out of me. At least the commercial built stuff has pretty well known fatigue limits.
Ever since a friend who owns and instructs in several small helicopters had a whole main rotor assembly depart his Enstrom when he was fortunately only maybe 15' in the air, I have not felt very safe about helicopters. I am sure the large military birds you flew had better service performed and are safe, but I like the security of having a solid fixed wing to glide down on if the engine give up the ghost.
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