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For 50 years, Vittorio Magni has been designing, testing and building stunning, innovative and high-performance gyroplanes in Northern Italy, resulting in the highly refined and successful M16 Tandem Trainer as well as the sharp-looking, enclosed cabin M24 Orion. Orbic Helicopters is proud to announce our partnership with Magni Gyro as an authorized dealer. We are committed to supporting the factory in their vision: pairing safe, reliable, capable aircraft with competent, well-trained pilots, enabling owners to experience the beauty of autogyro flight and the exhilaration of exploring the world in the comfort and safety of these gorgeous Italian flying machines.

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Many options are available, from paint and interior options to avionics.

Magni Gyro Models

Magni M16 Tandem Trainer

Designed for the flight school in mind, the Magni M16 Tandem Trainer is the breakthrough gyroplane to combine ease of use and high utility. However, the M16 is a perfect aircraft in which you can share the exhilaration of gyro flying with a friend! With its partial fuselage fairing and enlarged windscreens, the elegant M16 provides stylish protection against the elements and noise. While the fairing provides confidence inspiring security, it still retains the adventuresome spirit for those who want to explore what flying has to offer out in the open.

The strong, but lightweight airframe consists of 4130 chromoly steel comprising the keel and mast. They are TIG welded by certified aeronautical welders to form the unified load bearing structure for the rotor, seats, engine and landing gear. The remainder of the structure includes a carbon fiber semi-enclosed fuselage fairing, fiberglass tail surfaces, main landing gear leaf strut, and wheel fairings.

Engine choices include the rugged and reliable Rotax 912 or turbocharged

914 or the new electronic fuel injected 915is. Avionics may be custom picked to include a VHF comm radio, and a transponder with ADS-B out for operation in today’s controlled airspace.

Magni M16 Tandem Trainer Performance

Maximum Speed 115 MPH
Maximum Cruising Speed 95 MPH
Maximum Endurance 3.4 hours
Range (with FAA reserve) 260 miles
Takeoff Distance (Ground Roll) 230 feet*
Takeoff Distance (Over 50’ obstacle) 700 feet*
Landing Distance (Ground Roll) <100 feet*
Service Ceiling (Rotax 914) 11,400 feet

*Sea level, standard conditions

See the World Altitude Record that Donatella Ricci set in a Magni M16 Gyro!

See the story of James Ketchell and his around the world flight in a Magni M16 Gyro!

Magni M24 Orion

For those who place a premium on comfort, the Magni M24 Orion is a side-by-side enclosed gyro. After many years of refinement, the M24 Orion captures the characteristic stability of the Magni line, and well thought out window and windscreen placement for the best view possible in an enclosed cabin.

Engine choices include the rugged and reliable Rotax turbocharged 914 or the new electronic fuel injected 915is. Avionics may be custom picked to include a VHF comm radio, and a transponder with ADS-B out for operation in today’s controlled airspace.

Magni M24 Orion Performance

Maximum Speed 105 MPH
Maximum Cruising Speed 90 MPH
Endurance (with FAA reserve) >3 hours
Range (with FAA reserve) 260 miles
Takeoff Distance (Ground Roll) 230 feet*
Takeoff Distance (Over 50’ obstacle) 700 feet*
Landing Distance (Ground Roll) <100 feet*
Service Ceiling (Rotax 914) 11,400 feet

*Sea level, standard conditions

The Magni Experience: Build your gyro in Italy!

Magni Gyros are certified in the US under the FAA’s Experimental Amateur-Built rules, meaning the new owner actually builds the aircraft that they will fly. So, when you’re ready, come with us to Besnate Italy, where you will build your brand new Magni Gyro alongside the Magni family! We highly recommend this option, as the tooling, supervision, experience and quality control is right there with you every step of the way. In just ten days, your gyro is completed, and is test flown by the factory’s company test pilots along the beautiful Italian Alps to ensure that every aspect of your new Magni Gyro exceeds your expectations!

Not interested in building your own? In the very near future, the line of Magni Gyros will be certified by the FAA as Primary Category aircraft, allowing immediate use, and no building required! Check back with us for regular updates.

 

What is a Gyroplane?

 

Gyroplanes (also known as autogyros, or gyrocopters) are a type of rotorcraft which combine attributes of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to create a versatile, safe, capable, and economical type of flying machine. Whereas helicopters rely on an engine to rotate their rotor blades—enabling them to hover– gyrocopters pair a free-wheeling main rotor with an engine connected to a propeller that drives the aircraft forward through the air. With the rotor disk tilted back, the forward motion of the gyrocopter through the air causes the blades to rotate, producing the lift required to hold the aircraft aloft as they do so. This free-wheeling rotor action is referred to as “autorotation.”

This arrangement of an autorotating main rotor and an engine for forward propulsion results in an aircraft that is incredibly simple to fly and extremely safe. While autogyros are unable to hover in place the way a helicopter can, the fact that they are permanently in a state of autorotation means that it is impossible to stall a gyrocopter’s rotor once the aircraft is in flight: this means no looming threat of encountering aerodynamic stalls during low-speed maneuvering, as can occur in fixed-wing aircraft. It also means that an engine failure– an event which requires an immediate corrective action in a helicopter in order to produce a survivable outcome– can be addressed at a more relaxed pace in a gyro. In the unlikely event that the engine should fail, the rotor blades continue to turn and provide lift: all the pilot needs to do is direct the aircraft toward a suitable landing site.

The autogyro’s unpowered rotor system also produces another great benefit: economical operation. While the vast array of heavily-loaded, moving parts present in a helicopter produce large fatigue stresses and require constant maintenance and regular replacement of components, the gyrocopter’s relatively-simple mechanical systems, free-wheeling rotor, and simple propeller drive system result in dramatically lower operating costs. Magni’s gyrocopters’ simplicity, light weight, excellent aerodynamic qualities, and their ability to burn inexpensive, conventional automobile gasoline enable running costs which are even lower than fixed-wing operating expenses, making the gyro a very reasonable proposition for a personal flying machine!

Even though the gyro may appear new, the concept of the autogyro is quite well established, where the first successful autogyros were flying well before the helicopter. The main rotor is a 2-blade, teetering, fixed-pitch design. Pitch and roll are controlled by a cyclic stick that directly tilts the main rotor without utilizing a swashplate, while rudder pedals control the yaw. The throttle on the pilot’s left hand controls thrust from the pusher propeller. Finally, a mechanical prerotator temporarily connects the engine to the rotor for initial spin-up of the rotor but is disconnected when the takeoff roll commences.

Safety Features

 

 

  • Hands-off flight capability
  • Low touchdown speeds for landing
  • Well-proven rotor system with 30 years operational experience
  • Highly reliable Rotax 4-stroke engines

Economy

 

 

  • Low direct operating cost: nominal fuel flow is 5 gallons per hour using unleaded automotive gasoline
  • Low maintenance costs
  • Small hangar footprint, often can be placed under larger aircraft!

Builders of Gyros certified in the Experimental Amateur-Built category get certified by the FAA as the Repairman for their machine, allowing them to perform their own maintenance and FAA inspections, saving money on mechanics costs.