I must agree. It looked very crude but, if it worked better than its
predecessors....?
My recollection is that in the 40s/50s there was argument about which would
best satisfy market requirements. And a Simon Templar/Saint story about
someone making a fortune by putting a stolen kit together wrongly and
discovering/making a world beating design of autogyro.
Brian
On 23 July 2018 at 15:15, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That is one ugly autogyro.
>
> >
> >Anyone liking such things and with or without a camera, who is in the UK
> >near London, might enjoy a visit to the deHavilland Museum beside the M25
> >motorway near St Albans. Enthusiasts have various products of the company
> >on display complete, or in various stages of reconstruction, or even parts
> >as dug out of the ground after crashes. An autogyro, several Mosquitos,
> >Comet 1 and BAe 146 fuselages, and Sea Vixen amongst others. When I
> >visited today, the guide in the hangar with several Vampires was an ex RAF
> >pilot who had flown in them and had a higher opinion of them has our
> ChrisB
> >(if my memory serves me correctly!).
> >They brought back many memories from younger years but there was not
> enough
> >time to take many photos with my EM5 in a brief visit. More details
> >available at www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk .
> >
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
>
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