Ken used this film to instruct his gyro students in the 1970's. Times have changed and dual instruction is now available. Self instruction can be very dangerous.
I bought plans in 1989 and built most of it from scratch and bought rotors and flew for two years loads of fun. (Always get personal instruction on any kind of flying your life depends on it) I have the plans in full framed and hanging on you living room wall to this day. This video bring back memories of all the fun it was. I wish I new about this video back then!!!!!
This jogs my memory used to work for Ken Brock on Western Ave in Stanton, CA. His son Ken Jr and I were friends. While working there I met Burt Rutan and his brother, we made parts for various airplanes of thier's including the Rutan VariViggen, a two-seat pusher single-engine craft of canard configuration. Several of us would go to that dry lake bed and watch these guys fly. Ken Sr was the Yoda for the group eveyone looked up to him and learned from him. Several co-workers built and flew these.
Mike, I probably met you several times as I used to work at Swedlow, on the same cul de sac and during lunch would come over to "kick tires" with Ken whenever he had a little time. Ironically I was visiting my "In Laws" in Needles when Kenny landed on one of the roads to the trailer park (!), seems the "airport" had vanished when the property was sold off and made into a trailer park. Problem was, "NEEDLES AIRPORT" was still on the roof of one of the buildings and it was still noted as an "Airport" on my Triple A map,robaly still there. You should have seen the look on his face when he turned around and took off again; it wasn't until later that I found out he was flying to the East Coast in his gyro, which was quite a feat in a little gyrocopter. I Still have my original plans from when he first opened his shop and started selling plans from there - because of time and money, family and college(s) getting in the way, and then going to work at Stanton P.D. I never got much further than acquiring most everything I needed except the rotors, so about eight years ago I managed to purchase a certified B-8M from a gentlemen who could no longer fly, and then completely disassembled it, made the necessary safety modifications, such as the redundant mast, and the offset gimbal head with the joy stick - but kept the overhead/forward control as I prefer it, so will remove the joystick when flying it as a kite (glider), and am now about to install a VW to putt around the canyons between Moreno Valley and the San Jacinto/Hemet area. Since I'm now retired, the house is paid off and the kids are married, so now I finally have time and the money to do most of what I want to do. Yea !! The one thing I don't care for is the lack of explaining about PIO, "Pitch Induced Oscillation" to the newcomers, (personally don't care for "pilot -IO) since it tends to automatically put the blame on the pilot. I've been working on a device to help negate PIO within the first second to second and a half since it doesn't take much longer to pitch over upside down from overcorrecting, which I witnessed at the lake bed near Whiskey Pete's years ago, but fortunately the pilot stuffed it in nose first and ended up skidding bodily across the lake bed - he was a seasoned pilot but was unfamiliar with the forward/overhead control system (being opposite of the joy stick). NEVER believe someone when they look down their nose at you and say, "I know what I'm doing".
Excellent video...very informative! If only the background music was eliminated..it tended to drown-out Ken. Wish my brother saw this when he had his Air Command 447.
I bought plans in 1989 and built most of it from scratch and bought rotors and flew for two years loads of fun. (Always get personal instruction on any kind of flying your life depends on it) I have the plans in full framed and hanging on you living room wall to this day. This video bring back memories of all the fun it was. I wish I new about this video back then!!!!!
Great video.I wish I had a field like that where I can fly 20 minutes one way without dang trees ,bushes and houses around :)
This jogs my memory used to work for Ken Brock on Western Ave in Stanton, CA. His son Ken Jr and I were friends. While working there I met Burt Rutan and his brother, we made parts for various airplanes of thier's including the Rutan VariViggen, a two-seat pusher single-engine craft of canard configuration. Several of us would go to that dry lake bed and watch these guys fly. Ken Sr was the Yoda for the group eveyone looked up to him and learned from him. Several co-workers built and flew these.
Mike, I probably met you several times as I used to work at Swedlow, on the same cul de sac and during lunch would come over to "kick tires" with Ken whenever he had a little time.
Ironically I was visiting my "In Laws" in Needles when Kenny landed on one of the roads to the trailer park (!), seems the "airport" had vanished when the property was sold off and made into a trailer park.
Problem was, "NEEDLES AIRPORT" was still on the roof of one of the buildings and it was still noted as an "Airport" on my Triple A map,robaly still there.
You should have seen the look on his face when he turned around and took off again; it wasn't until later that I found out he was flying to the East Coast in his gyro, which was quite a feat in a little gyrocopter.
I Still have my original plans from when he first opened his shop and started selling plans from there - because of time and money, family and college(s) getting in the way, and then going to work at Stanton P.D. I never got much further than acquiring most everything I needed except the rotors, so about eight years ago I managed to purchase a certified B-8M from a gentlemen who could no longer fly, and then completely disassembled it, made the necessary safety modifications, such as the redundant mast, and the offset gimbal head with the joy stick - but kept the overhead/forward control as I prefer it, so will remove the joystick when flying it as a kite (glider), and am now about to install a VW to putt around the canyons between Moreno Valley and the San Jacinto/Hemet area.
Since I'm now retired, the house is paid off and the kids are married, so now I finally have time and the money to do most of what I want to do. Yea !!
The one thing I don't care for is the lack of explaining about PIO, "Pitch Induced Oscillation" to the newcomers, (personally don't care for "pilot -IO) since it tends to automatically put the blame on the pilot.
I've been working on a device to help negate PIO within the first second to second and a half since it doesn't take much longer to pitch over upside down from overcorrecting, which I witnessed at the lake bed near Whiskey Pete's years ago, but fortunately the pilot stuffed it in nose first and ended up skidding bodily across the lake bed - he was a seasoned pilot but was unfamiliar with the forward/overhead control system (being opposite of the joy stick).
NEVER believe someone when they look down their nose at you and say, "I know what I'm doing".
Old but very good information lacking in many of the flight videos
Im gonna try to fly my gyro the way ken brock showed me on his videos
This is the gyro that hangs in the EAA Museum in Oshkosh, WI.
great video! thank you!
bem instrutivo! muito bom
I have a mcculloch super engine how much oil to gas mixture 32 to 1
A historia da giroaviação agora nos videos. Legal e bem instrutivo.
Excellent video...very informative! If only the background music was eliminated..it tended to drown-out Ken. Wish my brother saw this when he had his Air Command 447.
Dont have anybody to show me i live in williamstown ky
The music is fine you uncultured riff-raff.