gyroplanes
FAA DAR Gyropilot
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2004
- Messages
- 6,207
- Aircraft
- (1) Air Command, (1) Bensen glider project (1) Air Command 2 place kit, (1) Sycamore gyro
- Total Flight Time
- 2650
Repeated from PRA thread above. See it for pictures.
Here is your chance to support the PRA and own a piece of gyroplane history.
I have reserved the original registration number for Dr Bensen's record holding gyroplane. N2588B.
I offer this reservation to the highest bidder here on the Rotary Forum.
The highest bidder over $20.00 on February 29th 2008 will have the reservation transferred to them.
The high bidder will have 7 days to get the N number assigned to their aircraft or transfer the registration to their name.
Bidding closes at midnight Central time February 29th, 2008.
The proceeds of this auction will go to the PRA.
Something about the history of N2588B
The best known of the Gyro-Copters was the Spirit of Kitty Hawk, so named because on the sixtieth anniversary of the Wright brothers historic flight, this aircraft became the first to duplicate exactly the first powered flight. It took off from the same spot. flew at the same speed, and covered the same distance as the Wright aircraft.
Not only did the Spirit of Kitty Hawk make that interesting flight. but in May 1967 and June 1968 it set twelve world and national autogiro speed. distance. and altitude records. Among these were speed over a 100-kilometer closed course (82.5 km/hr.). cross-country distance over a straight line (84 miles in 1 hour. 25 minutes). and maximum altitude (7.200 feet). The aircraft held more records than any other nonmilitary rotary aircraft in the world.
On May 14. 1969. at a ceremony before the American Helicopter Society. the Spirit of Kitty Hawk was presented to the Smithsonian for the National Aeronautical Collection.
The best known of the Gyro-Copters was the Spirit of Kitty Hawk, so named because on the sixtieth anniversary of the Wright brothers historic flight, this aircraft became the first to duplicate exactly the first powered flight. It took off from the same spot. flew at the same speed, and covered the same distance as the Wright aircraft.
Not only did the Spirit of Kitty Hawk make that interesting flight. but in May 1967 and June 1968 it set twelve world and national autogiro speed. distance. and altitude records. Among these were speed over a 100-kilometer closed course (82.5 km/hr.). cross-country distance over a straight line (84 miles in 1 hour. 25 minutes). and maximum altitude (7.200 feet). The aircraft held more records than any other nonmilitary rotary aircraft in the world.
On May 14. 1969. at a ceremony before the American Helicopter Society. the Spirit of Kitty Hawk was presented to the Smithsonian for the National Aeronautical Collection.
Here is your chance to support the PRA and own a piece of gyroplane history.
I have reserved the original registration number for Dr Bensen's record holding gyroplane. N2588B.
I offer this reservation to the highest bidder here on the Rotary Forum.
The highest bidder over $20.00 on February 29th 2008 will have the reservation transferred to them.
The high bidder will have 7 days to get the N number assigned to their aircraft or transfer the registration to their name.
Bidding closes at midnight Central time February 29th, 2008.
The proceeds of this auction will go to the PRA.
Something about the history of N2588B
The best known of the Gyro-Copters was the Spirit of Kitty Hawk, so named because on the sixtieth anniversary of the Wright brothers historic flight, this aircraft became the first to duplicate exactly the first powered flight. It took off from the same spot. flew at the same speed, and covered the same distance as the Wright aircraft.
Not only did the Spirit of Kitty Hawk make that interesting flight. but in May 1967 and June 1968 it set twelve world and national autogiro speed. distance. and altitude records. Among these were speed over a 100-kilometer closed course (82.5 km/hr.). cross-country distance over a straight line (84 miles in 1 hour. 25 minutes). and maximum altitude (7.200 feet). The aircraft held more records than any other nonmilitary rotary aircraft in the world.
On May 14. 1969. at a ceremony before the American Helicopter Society. the Spirit of Kitty Hawk was presented to the Smithsonian for the National Aeronautical Collection.
The best known of the Gyro-Copters was the Spirit of Kitty Hawk, so named because on the sixtieth anniversary of the Wright brothers historic flight, this aircraft became the first to duplicate exactly the first powered flight. It took off from the same spot. flew at the same speed, and covered the same distance as the Wright aircraft.
Not only did the Spirit of Kitty Hawk make that interesting flight. but in May 1967 and June 1968 it set twelve world and national autogiro speed. distance. and altitude records. Among these were speed over a 100-kilometer closed course (82.5 km/hr.). cross-country distance over a straight line (84 miles in 1 hour. 25 minutes). and maximum altitude (7.200 feet). The aircraft held more records than any other nonmilitary rotary aircraft in the world.
On May 14. 1969. at a ceremony before the American Helicopter Society. the Spirit of Kitty Hawk was presented to the Smithsonian for the National Aeronautical Collection.
