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B-8HD Super Gyro-Copter - development of Super Bug first flown in 1979 with hydraulic drive to pre-rotate rotor rather than separate engine B-8V - B-8 powered by a Volkswagen air-cooled engine B-8W Hydro-Glider - float-equipped B-8 intended to be towed behind a boat [ 4 ]
The basic gyro-glider B-7B Gyro-boat A Gyro-glider mounted on a standard sailing dinghy hull. B-7W Hydro-glider The B-7W "Hydroglider" was a gyrocopter designed to be towed from a motorboat at 10-20 mph. The B-7W was tested at Cypress Gardens Florida in 1955. It was marketed to be a sport vehicle, with practical uses in fish or submarine spotting.
Model name First flight Number built Type Bensen B-5: 1953 Rotor kite Bensen B-6: 1953 Rotor kite Bensen B-7: 1955 Rotor kite Bensen B-8: 1955 Autogyro
The Bensen B-5 was a small rotor kite developed by Igor Bensen in the United States and offered and marketed for home building in 1954. [1] Dubbed the "Gyro-Glider", it was the first of several such designs that would be sold by Bensen Aircraft Corporation over the following decades.
Data from EAA General characteristics Capacity: 1 Empty weight: 240 lb (109 kg) Gross weight: 600 lb (272 kg) Powerplant: 1 × McCulloch 4318, 90 hp (67 kW) Main rotor diameter: 2 × 12 ft (3.7 m) Performance Cruise speed: 61 kn (70 mph, 110 km/h) Range: 520 nmi (600 mi, 970 km) Rate of climb: 1,900 ft/min (9.7 m/s) See also Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Bensen B-8 ...
Bensen flew his first towed gyroglider in 1954. [1] He founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association (PRA) [2] in 1962, a non-profit interest group for owners and homebuilders of autogyros and helicopters, based in Mentone, Indiana.
The Air & Space 18A is a gyroplane that was manufactured in the central United States between 1965 and 2000.. The Air & Space 18A is one of the last three gyroplanes issued a Standard Airworthiness Certificate (September 1961) by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The gyroplane was designed to comply with the US Experimental - Amateur-built rules. It features a single main rotor, a single-seat open cockpit without a windshield, tricycle landing gear , and a twin cylinder, two-stroke , liquid-cooled, dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine in pusher configuration .