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==External links== |
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* [http://www.bensenaircraft.org Bensen Aircraft Foundation] |
* [https://web.archive.org/20100602184130/http://www.bensenaircraft.org:80/ Bensen Aircraft Foundation] |
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* [http://books.google.com/books?id=zSADAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true "Front Cover"] ''Popular Science'', July 1954. |
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=zSADAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=true "Front Cover"] ''Popular Science'', July 1954. |
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Revision as of 00:45, 24 February 2016
| B-5 | |
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| Role | Recreational rotor kite |
| National origin | USA |
| Manufacturer | Bensen Aircraft for homebuilding |
| Designer | Igor Bensen |
| First flight | Template:Avyear |
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.
The B-5 was built around a cruciform frame of aluminum tube. A landing wheel was fitted to three points of this cross, and a mast was fitted above its centre to support the rotor hub. The fourth arm of the cross provided a mounting for a large, plywood fin and rudder, reminiscent of that of the Raoul Hafner's Rotachute that had shaped Bensen's thinking about rotor kite design.
The aircraft was intended to be towed behind a car, and could be built at home from easily obtained materials in about three to four weeks.
The B-5 was also the model converted to the Bensen Mid-Jet which was powered by two tip mounted ramjets for military use.
General characteristics Performance
References
- ^ "He Rides a Kite." Popular Science, July 1954, p. 98.
- Charnov, Bruce (2003). From Autogiro to Gyroplane: The Amazing Survival of an Aviation Technology. Praeger. pp. 225–26.
External links
- Bensen Aircraft Foundation
- "Front Cover" Popular Science, July 1954.