Little Wing Autogyro


The Little Wing Autogyro is a series of conventional one and two place autogyros with a tractor engine layout using modern engines and produced by Little Wing Autogyros, Inc. of Mayflower, Arkansas.

Development

Ron Herron was concerned about the problem of pushover fatalities in pusher gyrocopters. He set to develop a tractor layout gyrocopter that also met the FAA rules for ultralight aircraft. A Prototype LW-1 powered by a Continental O-200 engine was soon followed on by the LW-2. The design was influenced by Juan de la Cierva's autogyros.

Operational history

Andy Keech set 29 world records in an LW-5 Autogyro.

Variants

;LW-1
;LW-2
;LW-3
;LW-4
;LW-5
;Roto-Pup

Aircraft on display