I became aware of this type of flying machine because of a blog I follow titled Weapons and Warfare on WordPress. I first mentioned it here: https://kjworldsong.wordpress.com/2020/04/22/airships-of-the-nine-empires-part-3/
In keeping with my intention of using this device to power an airship, I decided to start small and relatively conventional:
As you can see, this cyclogyro is the size of a small aeroplane, but with a much taller fuselage. This is very close to the design I first saw, but there is a problem with it: the torque from the rotors will cause the entire craft to "gerbil," or spin about its own X-axis. Therefore, it really ought to have a tail rotor - for the same reason that helicopters have one, unless they have counter-rotating main rotors, as on Russian military helicopters. In the case of the cyclogyro, however, the tail rotor would be oriented horizontally.
This, of course, is a very simple model that doesn't show the details of the actual mechanism, which I do indeed plan on designing. Larger models, such as those of a passenger liner, will show off those details. Of course, one could always look up "cyclogyro" on Wikipedia to see exactly how it works.
There are several bizarre airship designs that I intend to play around with, and having this new mechanism at my disposal opens up new possibilities. Tomorrow, I'll probably have another one.
On a side note, I think I may have finally found a good way to properly render airfoils, but until I re-design my IL-10 model, I won't know for sure. Inability to put fillets on that one is the main reason I don't design aeroplanes, but that may change in the near future.