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Rex McCandless (1915–1992) was a former motorcycle racer, designer and constructor from Northern Ireland. [ 1 ] Born in Hillsborough , County Down , McCandless had been a successful motorcycle racer prior to the Second World War. [ 1 ]
Taggart Gyro Bee Plans-built version introduced in 1990. [1] Star Bee Light Kit-built version of the GyroBee, produced by Star Bee Gyros. Mounts a 23 ft (7.0 m) Sport Copter rotor, Ivoprop propeller and a 45 hp (34 kW) Zanzottera MZ 201. [1] [2] Star Bee Total Bee Kit-built version of the GyroBee, produced by Star Bee Gyros.
It was not a free flight, as four men were used to steady the structure. It was neither controllable nor steerable, but it was the first time that a rotary-wing device had lifted itself and a pilot into the air. [1] It later flew up to 1.52 m (4.99 ft) above the ground. The design was improved and the Gyroplane No.II appeared the following year ...
24 November 1936: Flight duration of 1:02:50 hours over a 44 km closed circuit at 44.7 km/h; Maximum speed 120 km/h; The Gyroplane Laboratoire and its accomplishments were soon overshadowed by the German Fw 61. Bréguet and Dorand continued to conduct further experiments to improve the design until the aircraft experienced a hard landing in ...
AutoGyro MT-03 without fairing fitted. The MT-03 features a single main rotor, a two-seats in tandem open cockpit with an optional partial cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition 100 hp (75 kW) Rotax 912 engine or turbocharged 115 hp (86 kW) Rotax 914 engine in pusher configuration.
Bennett joined Fairey Aviation in 1945, where he continued the development of the C.41 design to create the first gyrodyne, the Fairey FB-1, that first flew in 1947. [citation needed] In 1943, the Aircraft Department of G & J Weir Ltd. was reconstituted as the Cierva Autogiro Company to develop helicopter designs for the Air Ministry.
[1] The aircraft fuselage is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing and is equipped with a composite fairing. Its two-bladed rotor has a diameter of 7.0 m (23.0 ft) and a chord of .18 m (7.1 in). The aircraft has a typical empty weight of 140 kg (309 lb) and a gross weight of 300 kg (661 lb), giving a useful load of 160 kg (353 lb).
The RAF 2000 was a development of the single seat RAF 1000 and was designed primarily by Bernard J Haseloh. The aircraft kits were manufactured by Rotary Air Force Inc of Canada until April 2007 when the marketing and manufacturing rights were transferred to UMRTC Eben Mocke located in Upington, South Africa.