Flying gyroscope

Flying gyroscope

A flying gyroscope is a cylindrical item which when thrown like a football, can fly great distances. X-Zylo is one of the biggest names in flying gyroscopes. Z-Zylo invented their flying gyroscope in 1993. It was invented by Mark Forti, a Baylor University student, and refined within the aerospace industry. In 1994, X-Zylo unofficially broke the existing world flying disc distance record when it was thrown 655 feet.

X-zyLo has been featured on many television programs such as Beyond 2000, Science Times, and Regis and Kathie Lee as well as in numerous national and international news publications including the "L.A.Times", "Success Magazine", "The Christian Science Monitor", and "N.Y.Times."

No consensus has been reached on how X-zyLo actually flies.

Flying gyroscopes can also be found by other makers. There are even [http://www.instructables.com/id/Flying-gyroscope-out-of-a-single-sheet-of-paper!!/ directions] found online to make a flying gyroscope out of a sheet of paper.


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