Hi Lynn,

 

You kept saying "sell the gyro", so I did.  It left for TX yesterday morning :-)

Sell the Gyro. See, it even sounds good when I say it.  How about: Sold the Gyro, didn't get killed in it.Or,

I sold the boat and made a house payment.

 

 

 

As a youth, there was a private airfield inside the operating range of my bicycle. Known as Snook Field.

For the Snook Brothers. It had been their Moms farm, Just East of Reynoldsburg Ohio. If the Wright brothers haden't done it the Snook Brothers would have.

 

There were a number of adults hanging about developing new ways of killing themselves. The Benson Gyrocopter was very popular. I had developed a skill at starting the 72HP MCoullough4 cylinder drone engine, and became an assistant on many suicide attempts.

Starting a drone engine for somone is like handing a bag full of crack to a crack addict.Or, handing little Bobby your.44 magnum and a few Magazines, and saying take this out back and teach your little friends how to shoot.Its going to sound worse in the court room than it sounds here.

 

Even the ones with full suspension were dreadfull  at 70 or 80 MPH in a farmers field.No brakes and top heavy I should add. And monstrosly overpowered.Many of the adults ended up sitting in the grass, plucking shredded blue jeans out of there previously working knees. Some useful facts learned as a youth.

 

Brand new 5 gallon boat gas tanks are shipped, full of crap, so you don't have to add any yourself. A complete benson including rotor blades will fit in a 55 gallon trash can. An engine desiged to cool at 250 MPH, will not cool even a little bit at 60 MPH with some idiot sitting in front of it.

 

If you have been on board a Benson when it became small enough to fit in the trash can, You won't be back all summer.Although there will be a number of interesting pictures of you and your machine in the hanger, so we won't forget what you looked like.

 

 

Lynn E. Hanover