A big thankyou to the half a million viewers who have watched my flying video as at today's date (11 October 2016). And a special thanks to all those who took the time to leave a comment. Robert.

@pabitraale1416

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Shaw

@MegaTim2008

7 жыл бұрын

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@edgreene5749

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you posted. What is the main fuselage made from including the tail boom. I like the design

@MrSudanPresident

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Shaw where can i but one.. im in the UK?... I NEED IT FOR THE SUMMER TIME ASAP..

@d.e303-anewlowcosthomebuil7

5 жыл бұрын

you guys need ultralight legislation....no licence....

Nice to see an ultralight being flown instead of low level around the pattern. The suspension is genius and the flying great. Thanks

Nice, love the way that old Vee dub sounds.

What a fantastic film! My son&I just really enjoyed watching this. Cheers for posting&enjoy flying that great aircraft.

Fantastic first landing :) Great footage. Very enjoyable.

I like how it had subtitles to help describe how to land and take off properly

Good job. Beautiful aircraft!

Amazing. Simply amazing. I am speechless

Fantastic fun! Love to have one of these in the UK.

Cool, informative, and very enjoyable video. It is very good quality. Thanks so much for sharing.

Ahh this plane. I could remember when my dad would take me to the airfield so I could watch him fly. he used an abandoned one by the way. i remember him flying over the house on other occasions. i wish i had my own. i always begged him to take me with him but it only seated one so that sucked. love the video. probably the best and only i've seen on youtube. cheer mate

Thanks Rob for the info on the mounts.

Hey Robert. Thanks for taking the time to make and share your very enjoyable video. Cheers, Pablo.

@robertshaw8590

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Pablo. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Great film, thanks for sharing. A nice simple little craft, brilliant. Cheers

superb flight Love the Aircraft built define my freind .

Nice flight, nice landings too. I'd reather be flying than behind the desk as i am now.

I'm from Argentina and I liked both its aircraft despite having to translate messages by messages all your answers, I was satisfied because I have already evacuated all my curiosity. Thank you very much for your time and interesting all that contributed. VIDEO EXELENTE. CONGRATULATIONS.

You are one lucky guy, thanks for sharing.

great video and thanks for the flight !!

Excellent video. Thanks for sharing.

Good video and article - loved the landing with the shadow......

Greetings from Greece. Great flying video, I watched it all and felt as if I was there myself. Australia looks beautiful. Have good times flying over it. Dimitris

Great aircraft, great scenery; a good clip, not ruined with howling noise some people think is luverly music!

For recreational flying you cannot beat gliding, for the pure enjoyment of flying.

Beautiful thanks for sharing

Loved every second of it👍👍👌

Cute aircraft!

Nice ship, camera angle, flight. Thanks.

Great. Now I want one even more!

Nice plane, my dad used to have one. I reckon I might get one if I ever start flying

Awesome light aircraft. 😁😁😁

Nice little plane! Good vid!

Great vid ---------- thank you.

This is a superb aircraft design. The converted VW engine is a very reliable aircraft power unit. Have played your video-tape many times. Will pay real money if I could get my hands on some real construction plans. Somebody in Australia needs to talk the original designer into selling some plans up here in the U.S.A. There is a major market up here just waiting to be filled with a great design like this ! Thanks for your great in flight videotape. It really gives us fellow aviators a taste of flight in the "Tyro !" A really great airplane.

@henrygonzalez1127

5 жыл бұрын

I am very interested in a set of plans myself. Please let me know if you find a source. A very flexible design. Here in northern calif. @ henry gonzalez, p.o. box 142, ione, ca. 95640/ henry.fiddlefardm@gmail.com Anyone else interested? Thank you all. Ciao

Must be great to able to that What a great sense of freedom Enjoy Gteat vid many thanks

Very nice! Enjoyed the video very much. Thanks

Great flight, you must be proud! Gefeliciteerd uit Nederland................

Beautiful aircraft coupled with superb piloting. Well done!

@robertshaw8590

8 жыл бұрын

+Edward Newbold Very nice comment. Thankyou Edward!

@fhafhasai2968

8 жыл бұрын

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Nice job Mate! I would love to visit Australia and fly my airplane there also.

Hi Dimitris, greetings from Australia and thanks for your comment. One of the reasons for mounting the wide angle camera out on the wing was to give the viewer the impressions that he or she was joining me on the flight. If you felt that you were there yourself then hopefully I have succeeded! Robert.

Sweet machine mate !

Hi again. Thanks for your comments! Yes, this should have been done when the engine was rebuilt for fitting to the Tyro. Power is adequate for most phases of flight, but a better rate of climb would be nice.

enjoyable video , thanks for sharing .

I want one so bad...that looks like a lot of fun.

Greetings from India. I felt i fly in the air. I read all the comments and your replies. You are so cool to reply all. My long dream is build a ultralight aircraft and love to see the world from sky like you. Your video is so informative and induce me to make a similar aircraft in future. Expecting more videos from you. Hats off you to your performance.

Must be alot of fun ! great riding, but i am scared while i am watching =D

thats cool ... i wished i could build one like these they are amazing :)

Wow it went above the clouds 👍👍

Looks like fun !

And thank you for your comment! It was always my intention when creating the video to make the flight as realistic as possible for the viewer, so they can get a feel for what this type of flying is really like. That means being able to hear the engine, wind and other sounds that occur during a flight. The best way to ruin a video like this is to pollute the sound track with music!

@lexol3347

4 жыл бұрын

Any back-up plan if the engine should fail?

@Jukipuringchannel

3 жыл бұрын

How we can got it....tell us how do you get the small plane,buy or home made

@yogiprasad5616

3 жыл бұрын

Great.. Take off and landing.. Excellent.. One question only I. E can this achi glide In case emergency such as an Engine Failure?

I bet that really feels like flying!

Hi Yan, Thanks for your comment. Great to hear from you. Viewers may be interested to know that Yan is an experienced aircraft designer, jet fighters not ultralights! I had the very great pleasure of meeting Yan during her recent visit to Nanango. What a truly amazing person.

Great video and brilliant camera angle. Happy landings. Regards, Wayne. U.K. Microlight pilot.

Well built

Soy de Argentina y me ha gustado tanto su aeronave que a pesar de tener que traducir mensajes por mensajes todas sus respuestas, he quedado satisfecho por que ya he evacuado toda mi curiosidad. Muchas gracias por su tiempo y muy interesante todo lo que aportó. EXELENTE VIDEO. FELICITACIONES. I'm from Argentina and I liked both its aircraft despite having to translate messages by messages all your answers, I was satisfied because I have already evacuated all my curiosity. Thank you very much for your time and interesting all that contributed. VIDEO EXELENTE. CONGRATULATIONS.

Amazing...I love it. Well done. I wish I could learn how to make planes.

@cbshomebizplane

9 жыл бұрын

Why can't you Kenneth its not really any harder than working on cars or trucks go to EAA.org lock at chapter list find one near you and talk to the people that is how I got start and also spending 9 years working on helicopters in the military.

nice flying

Great vid, thanx

GREAT. VIDEO.

Maravilloso me encantaría probar uno así...felicitaciones!!!

Hi Rob, met your son Pauly last night at a christmas party and when I mentioned I grew up and am going back to Nanango on the weekend he was shocked and told me about this video... very nice work and great to see Nanango airport getting some use! Sure beats driving to Kingaroy and back :D

@robertshaw8590

10 жыл бұрын

Paul was telling me recently that he met you at a Christmas party. He was surprised to hear that you posted a comment on my KZread flying video. Nice to hear from someone who grew up in Nanango!

Wawooo Mr Robert thanks a Lot and a lot it's was my dream job and you make it easy for me from the very two years am just searching people on facebook and become friend with them to find the sam job you are doing i wanna say more and more thanks to you Robert

Great, now I want one! :-)

Greetings from Australia and thanks for the comment. I was not really confident about building but it was the only way I could get a brand new aircraft with the budget I had set myself. I had to learn the skills required as the building progressed. Turned out to be a great project. Had a few technical problems along the way but these were overcome and as you can see in the video it flies beautifully. Rob.

Nice prototype!!!

Hey that's neat. Never seen a front engine design one. That way the motors even louder and you can catch some partial exhaust and watch the propeller flit in your eyes as you stare out the front.

@johnstarkie9948

3 жыл бұрын

Ithad Beenso Et tu, Brute. The exhausts vent into the low pressure area above the wings.

I think you may be referring to the slight camera shake noticeable in some scenes. This is caused by the location of the camera and the aerodynamic forces acting upon it. The propeller is balanced and tracks correctly (both tips pass through the same point in space when the prop is rotated by hand on the ground.) There are no vibration issues with this prop. As for the noise being a little high, the engine noise at takeoff power is deafening. Those 4 exhaust pipes are not muffled in any way.

Thanks for the "ride". Nice.

it looks safety, i want one! congrats...

Man that is so cool. An airplane at its simplest. That thing is just a stick with wings and a seat bolted to it! I can't imagine what a strong wind would do to you in that. Looks like such a fun experience though.

@robertshaw8590

4 жыл бұрын

A Tyro should only be flown in light winds!

As you correctly point out, the aircraft is highly manoeuvrable and very responsive to control inputs, especially in pitch. Beautiful to fly! The Tyro has two 20 litre fuel tanks mounted inside the root of each wing. The fuel caps are positioned on top of each wing.

thanks for sharing.

Amazing build…never seen a bungee based suspension….Cheers

Nice job....

Nice looking simple design. Surprised you don't see more of this kind of ultralight. It looks almost to simple. :-) -keith

Wow very nice

Hi Phil, I normally fly lower circuits but on the day of the video flight I chose 1000 ft due to the turbulent conditions and the fact that there was no other traffic in the area. In any case low performance aircraft are defined as max speed 55 knots and my Tyro can easily exceed that. Good luck with getting your Tyro back in the air. They are a superb little aircraft!

nice, im looking at some ultralights and came across one of these on gumtree, they look good and im considering buying one

Awesome vid.. thanks for the upload. I don't see myself flying an ultralight aircraft without a parachute tho. (not that i'm a pilot of any sort)

Great comment, thanks. It took quite a lot of time and effort to make the video and it is the many comments like this that make it all worthwhile. I also want to take this opportunity to thank all the people from many different countries who have taken the time to watch the video and in particular those who have posted a comment. Robert.

Yes I did and yes you have. There are not many 16-min videos in KZread that I have watched whole. I easily get bored and click something else or jump ahead. But this one was like being there and who would want to stop that ? :o) Good job, take care. Dimitris

Good point and you are correct about the lens! The advantage of using the wide angle lens is that I can fit the whole aircraft in the viewing frame but the disadvantage is that the image is somewhat distorted. The wing span is in fact 30 feet which is quite long for an aircraft of this size, but in the ground shots the camera makes the span look a lot shorter. It's a low speed high lift wing. Cruise speed is 50 knots.

I must say that landing gear looks tough. I have a Kolb Firefly and the gear will bend easily. Keep on flying!

Congratulations,for such good job.My respect to you who dare thinking and dare realising.Wish you will always successful with your new plans in trhe future.

Nice aircraft ;-)

Kool stuff robert….

Yes, I could simply climb en route but for the first flight of the day I like to circle and climb while keeping the airfield within gliding distance until I am satisfied that all aircraft systems are functioning correctly. Makes for a safe return to the airfield if something is not right. Regarding the engine location, all aircraft have blind spots and you just have to manoeuvre the aircraft from time to time to clear those bits of the sky. Overall visibility is excellent.

nice aircraft :-)

It certainly is and that's a good way of describing it. When you strap into the 4 point harness it kind of feels like the aircraft becomes and extension of your body. Related to this is the ability to fly these minimum aircraft mostly by feel, meaning your whole body becomes finely tuned to the forces acting on the aircraft and how it responds to your control inputs. You can then fly with less reliance on instruments. This is commonly known as "seat of the pants" flying.

wow amazing

Thank you. Take care. Stan

Be careful to not fly too close to the sun.. You don't want to end up like Icarus. ;) This is so cool, wow. And to think you built it yourself and everything. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Прекрасно! Красивый и летучий самолёт!

Parabens , lindo ultraleve.

Nice video. The little plane seems to be a ball to fly.

You have owned it for 18 years and are still restoring it? That's amazing. Mine is serial number 125. Kit purchased in 2000. First flew 2004. One major reason for choosing the Tyro was the availability of the VW engine as an option. I don't like 2-strokes. The VW runs very smoothly, is extremely reliable and has a long service life. I see that there are only 10 Tyros currently on the Australian register. I wonder what happened to the many that were built. Good luck with the restoration. Rob.

that is awesome

looks like a lot of fun to me

Sweet vw powered aircraft!