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HA! A friend who kept his C170 my hangar while he was in med school, and I, started looking for a gyro to play with back then. (I had about 20 years on him; he had family money on me.) My neighbors here at the airport caught wind of it while we were looking. My wife, who isn't a pilot but absolutely *loves* to fly with me and supports just about anything I want to attempt, and has hopped into the back seat of a Suzuki powered flexwing with a pilot she'd never met without even a pause, put her foot down after they started talking behind my back. So never got a chance to even ride in one. But the dream never dies....
But my interest at the moment is wondering how many hours the guy has accumulated by now. While typing this I'm pretty sure I've remembered his name; I believe it was Gary Buster. Didn't get many search hits, but there is a page showing a gyro flight & it sounds like a rotary in the video. Unfortunately, it looks like he passed away a couple of years ago; there's an obit that shows up when searching for his name.
Charlie
Charlie, it has been over 20 years sense I saw it. He gave me 10 hrs training in it and left me with these words of wisdom “ Don’t ever get on one of these things by yourself and expect to live “ needless to say I couldn’t master the dark. It might have been a 12A It had plenty of power as I recall.
Bob
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> On Jun 26, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Charlie England ceengland7@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:
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> Thanks, Bob; any idea whether he's still flying it? That's not the name I recall, but I'm not surprised that there's more than one gyro guy using the rotary. The guy I'm thinking about had, IIRC, over 1500 hrs on his, and it might have been a 12A instead of a 13B.
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> Charlie
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>> On 6/26/2020 3:42 PM, Robert bobperk90658 bobperk90658@bellsouth.net wrote:
>> A fellow in Flagler Beach FL, Bill Ortmayer use to do training in a Parsons gyro that had a 13b on it
>> Bob
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>>>> On Jun 26, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Charlie England ceengland7@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net> wrote:
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>>> While while wandering the interwebs trying to find the name of the guy who's been flying a rotary on a gyro for several decades, I stumbled upon this site; thought some of us might be interested in the aviation history of the Wankel that's discussed. A quick scan didn't reveal anything 'new', but there is a lot of stuff I haven't seen compiled in one location before. (And the inevitable handful of errors, of course...)
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>>> http://www.buildagyrocopter.com/aircraft-wankel-power-rotary-engines/
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>>> Charlie
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