Build-It-Yourself Gyrocopter
IT WILL NEVER WIN a prize for beauty of design or appearance, but the Bensen Gyro-glider (or the powered Gyro-copter) is a first class flying…
DESIGN
Anatomy Of A New Gyrocopter Design
ARTICLE DATE: August 1986 I sure like my gyro, but if I could start all over again, I think I would change this and this…
Jim Eich Flying Hull Two-Place Dual-Control JE-2 Gyroplane
Move over, O’ sky and seagoing ships of Robur the Conqueror and Captain Nemo! ARTICLE DATE: September/October 1986 Make room for this funky looking modern…
The Aurora Butterfly Gyroplane
ARTICLE DATE: November – December 2008 Valorie White, the new Executive Vice President of The Butterfly LLC, introduced the new Aurora Butterfly Gyroplane to the…
Arrowcopter Modern STOL Gyrocopter
One pilot’s quest for performance leads to a gyrocopter GYROCOPTERS AND THE PROMISE of efficient, economical vertical flight first captivated my imagination in 1996 when…
Rotorcraft Of The 1980’s
Vertical landings and takeoffs still lure homebuilders to the field Experimental helicopters, gyroplanes, vertical takeoff machines and other rotorcraft have been going on nearly as…
Barnett J4B Gyroplane
Easy-To-Build Single Seat Gyrocopter ARTICLE DATE: October 1979 JERRIE BARNETT, an Olivehurst, California, machinist and self-taught gyro-pilot, has come up with a fine little single-place…
The Glanville GA-2C Skymaster Gyroplane
A Variation Of The Hollmann HA-2M Sportster ARTICLE DATE: October 1979 BACK IN 1976, C.A. (Kemp) Glanville, president of EAA Chapter 112 in St Thomas,…
Jukka Tervamaki Design JT-5 Autogyro
JT-5 Autogyro Website MAYBE IT’S THE weather in Finland A country with no coal or oil and long, severe winters. Finland is a nation of…
World’s Most Populor Rotorcraft – Bensen Gyrocopters
It was once written…. To the Publisher Homebuilt Aircraft Magazine We do advertise in this fine magazine, but HOWCOME? Not one editorial word about Bensen…