Slow-Gs are as diverse and colorful and their pilots. Send your Slow-G photos along with your feedback, and I'll be happy to post them on this page.
"I received the kit last Friday eve when I got home. I had it almost ready to fly by 10 pm [...] I got it out in the yard before 8 am [...] It made a huge hit at the indoor fly Saturday night at show and tell.
"I like the concept of recycling a slow stick, and this seems one of the most fun ways to do it."
"Since I work as a aviation composite tech I tend to look for something I can add to a project to make it lighter or better. I like to tinker with improvements when possible. [...] The balsa parts are so light I don't know if there will be a saving there either. I must admit your original design is quick, easy and light. Most of the materials I work with are hard pressed to improve over traditional modeling choices when used in such small models."
"As seen [in the video] the Slow-G is as easy to fly as the ordinary Slow stick, the only tricky part is to take it a little easy at the take off, so both rotors speeds up about the same revs.
"I saw a quite similar forum post on RC-Groups, there were discussions about if the Slow-G could carry a camera or not. I thought it was rather funny because when I put the camera onboard I wanted the rotors to be visible in the video so I had to tape the camera (20g) onto the fin(!) It was a little tail-heavy but it flew fine. :-)"
Mats posted his experiences, complete with photos and videos on Svenskt Modellflyg, a Swedish forum.
"I just wanted to let you know how much fun I had last weekend. I took my Slow-G autogyro to the Mid-America Indoor Fun Fly in Kansas City, MO. As a matter of fact it's just about the only thing I flew all weekend.
"I don't think 5 minutes passed the whole weekend without someone looking it over and asking questions. A fellow flyer said he'd never seen a $50 modification draw so much attention--he ordered one for his SlowStick several days after the event!"
Stacy posted some videos on his club's website: first flight, first indoor flight, indoor flying at MIFF
"One thing you don't want to change is the precision of the balsa blades themselves. This is excellent and probably requirement for good performance. Flew for at least 25 minutes last weekend. As usual amazed everyone."
"Ari has made a simple-to-build Gyro for the masses."
"I found it was a pleasure to fly. A real crowd pleaser!"
"I'm very impressed with the design and its flying characteristics!" Scott knows a thing or two about flying characteristics - check out his website.
"Bob Ruff gave me his Slow G rotor setup [and] with much surprise to me I'm having a blast with it. I have a total of three flights with it now and I'm getting very used to how it flies.
"I land with some power and about a foot off the ground I do a high nose flare to a point I have almost zero forward speed to a soft touch down."
David liked Bob's Slow-G so much that he bought one himself.
"I increased the elevator area because I read you need large control surfaces during slow flights, and full flying tail is better. On the SlowStick, it is not easy to put on a full flying elevator, so I did the next best thing. So far I did not find I need that much elevator but I think a larger rudder might be helpful. The side benefit of the white elevator is it really shows up as the sun hits it."
"My Slow-G is a little unusual in that it is half Wingo and half SlowStick - I call it the StingoCopter."