The Gyros-1 was designed for aerial work use, including aerial application, courier, forestry patrol, search and rescue and geological survey. It features a single main rotor, a single-seat enclosed cockpit accessed by a door, tricycle landing gear with additional tailwheel and a 4-blade traction propeller. It is powered by a six-cylinder, four-stroke, horizontally-opposed, liquid-cooled converted 2000NaN0 Eggenfellner E6 Suburu gasoline engine.[1]
The aircraft also fits an optional Racket 120 single-cylinder, two-stroke auxiliary engine for running the agricultural equipment, when installed.[2]
The aircraft fuselage includes a baggage compartment or application hopper between the cockpit and the nose-mounted engine. It has a two-bladed rotor and a four-bladed propeller. The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 6100NaN0 and a gross weight of 7500NaN0, giving a useful load of 1400NaN0. With full fuel of the payload for the pilot and payload is 680NaN0.[1], gasoline engine