BENSEN-WOMACK B-8 S/N: W0001, Year: 1969, Certificate Issue Date: 12/12/1972, Cancel Date: 10/06/2014, Engine Manufacturer: MCCULLOCH, Engine Model: 4318A&E/0-100. Classification: Experimental. The N3913 was also issued to a 1931 Laird Swallow aircraft. The previous owner from you is a Wichita resident. I have the name and address but will not post it here. Info from FAA.
My Father in law had the exact same model. He rescued it from a local museum here in San Diego. The latch in front is so you can tow it for practice flights without the motor. The motor is a actual drone aircraft motor from the military. Huge 2 stroke and very simple. They were only designed to run full throttle. So getting them to run with a carburetor was interesting. It only spins no more than 3500 RPM or the blade will break the sound barrier and come apart. He upgraded to a VW and later a Subaru both with a belt reduction. They take off very easily and quickly if you point it into the wind. His had a powered rotation which was a starter and also a power cable off the engine. He flew it for years in the CA deserts.
I found it in FAA registry. Cancel date on registration is 10/06/2014. They let the registration lapse. It appears it had two owners, one in Wheeling, WV prior to the owner in Wichita. Interesting read
A family friend (an accomplished helicopter pilot) built one of those in his basement. His was powered by a Subaru engine. He towed that thing all over the country behind his motorhome and flew everywhere he could. Despite hundreds of hours at the controls of that sketchy looking thing, he died in his bed of unrelated old man things.
gyro copters are among the safest rotor machines you can fly they can't fall out of the sky if your engine quits since they generate their own lift from forward movement. and you can control your speed without the engine running in a controlled "crash" more or less a controlled decent.
Well, normal helicopters don't fall either. When you're training to get your helicopter license, you need to train for engine out landings. Of course, they don't glide as well as a gyro for obvious reasons, but they don't just fall, as I thought before as well 😅
Same tank as an old outboard pressure tank. I have a few. One way valve at the crankcase provides pressure. That button on the tank is a manual pump to get you going until you build pressure. Also, works as a manual pump if something goes south in the pressure system. I've pumped my way back to shore a few times. Better than rowing.
At 4:40, the control stick you are moving around and calling the collective is actually the cyclic. It does move the swash plate, true, but it tilts the swash plate in different directions creating individual pitch changes for each blade to control pitch and roll of the entire craft. Yaw is controlled by the foot pedals which operate the rudder as in a fixed wing aircraft. You may have a collective as well, just like a helicopter, but it moves the entire swash plate up and down rather than tilting it, changing the pitch on both blades simultaneously. Most gyroplanes don't have a collective control. If you had one on the Bensen, it would be a longer lever attached near your left hip when seated, which you would raise and lower. Most gyroplanes collective pitch is preset at the factory so you probably don't have one as I mentioned earlier. If you did want to fly it, I would lower the engine mount to be sure the propeller thrust line is below the center of gravity. Power push over was the cause of most gyroplane accidents and it comes from having a ship with that high mounted engine like yours. And even experimentals need to be checked out and test flown by professionals before you take them up on your own.
John, I'm glad that you got that. When you first showed it I had thought that you should, even if left in it's present condition as a decoration. Way too unique to get crushed.
This series will do really well. Fixing up a $500 Gyrocoptor should get a lot of views and a lot of new subscribers. Once it's going, you've just got to get it airborne, at least once. At least get it to where the wheels are off the ground. If not you, then a willing friend. Honestly jealous, that is one of the coolest things you've ever got. VT247
Suggest after the restoration you hang it from the shop ceiling like the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. Maybe wire the lights and rotor/prop to spin via electric motors on remote control. 😁
BTW, I am a helicopter CFI and this isn't a helicopter, it's a gyroplane. Forward thrust is provided by a pusher propeller and you have a rotary wing instead of a fixed wing. It autorotates just from the flow of air over it created by your prop pushing the craft through the air (relative wind). Once autorotation speed is reached from a short takeoff run (300-500 feet, condition dependent) on the ground, there is sufficient lift for flight. An item called a prerotator can spin the rotor fast enough so you can perform a jump takeoff, which can be almost vertical or a very short ground run, like 20 feet.
Just a bit of trivia for you. The bolt that holds the rotors to the Gyrocopter is called the "Jesus Bolt". Why? That's the last thing you'll say if it fails in flight.
My best friend's father was the US first helicopter pilot just after WWII - he worked with Igor Sikorsky and flew the first one they ever built - when we were teenagers in the 1960s, he bought a Benson Gyro-copter - same variant as the one you have there. Before you added the engine, they could be towed behind a car in a short boom to get practice - we did that a few times at Plymouth, MA airport. Subsequent tow-trials were with a long tow rope - still no engine. Eventually, the McCulloch drone engine went on. He did a couple short flights and eventually crashed it on take off - they are squirrely. And.. the drone engines were not designed for long duration use - the bearings wore out and siezed up after several hours if I recall correctly. Be safe on that thing, Sir - not likely to have a good outcome if you auger it in from more than 10' altitude.
It would be great to see it rip around and bounce down a runway fully functional at least, even better if you can find someone that could fly it. Very interesting project, I'm all in on this one.
When I was younger several of us tried to build one. The main problem was the rotor and engine. We grew up and found girl's and car's but never forgot about gyro's. You got a great deal although as some one said, ya shoulda got it for scrap price. I used to know a lot about them, but one thing I remember is that they are probably the safest thing you can fly. I was a pilot and my instructor had been a WW2 flight instructor, he always wanted to build one. I think you should fly it at least once.
When I was in high school in Fairhope, AL (mid 1970s), you would occasionally see a fellow flying an autogyro over the school... which always brought a crowd of students outside to watch him! I always thought it was the coolest thing, and really wanted one some day! Later in life (mid 1980s), I was the manager of an auto parts store, and one of my customers (a college professor at the University of South Alabama) would come in about once a year to have me order a set of 4 "matched belts" made by Goodyear (matched belts all have the same batch number on them to indicate that they are exactly the same length since they were used on multiple pulley set-ups). The guy had his own autogyro/gyrocopter which used a 4 cylinder air-cooled, flat 4 engine (like a Volkswagen used to use). The engine had a 4 groove pulley which drove a smaller 4 groove pulley which was attached to the pusher prop, and having multiple belts gave you plenty of redundancy in case one broke (or 2 or 3, I guess!). The guy told me that autogyros were some of the safest air vehicles you could fly in (or on?) since the overhead rotor was basically autorotating the entire time the craft was in the air, and you could easily land it even if the pusher engine died by simply "flaring" the rotor blades as you came in for a landing.
A friend of mine has a gyro and it is pretty cool how it can hover after the rotor gets some speed. He has had a non-powered landing but just a slightly bent landing gear and some puckering. I'll stick with drones for my flying but if I was going to try an aircraft it would be a gyro.
I knew it! When I saw that during the crusher episode I thought why does JR buy that. Oh yea crowd engagement that’s a t-shirt in the making! You have my attention sir.
Even if you can’t get this thing to work, it will make a great conversation piece for the shop! Get it cleaned up and hang it from the ceiling! It’s too cool to scrap! Thanks for the unusual content!
Only 20 mph to launch. But you will need 100 feet to take off - landing can be done in much shorter. There are still plans online that should help with building parts.
JR, So glad you said you're not going to fly it! You are my favorite car channel and I don't know what I would do if you "bought the farm" flying that helicopter, or whatever it's called.
You probably already know, but the switch grounds the magneto out to stop it. If the switch is off or the wire is broken, the engine is live. Be careful when you’re trying to move the prop, if it moves and the mag is not grounded, it’s going to spark. Some mags are very easy to start when you don’t expect.
@@AndyZ325is last time I tried they didn't in around 2005 for one of my customers. They haven't been produced since the 70's. I had to make them in 82 when I ran a 58 Evinrude on my first boat.
There is an annual inspection for experimental aircraft (although it's called a "condition inspection"). On gyrocopters there is no collective, the rotor is a fixed angle and is always autorotating, it's tilted rearward so that while it's got airspeed it autorotates to create lift. Experimentals can be much newer/better than "certified" aircraft, but obviously it's a mixed bag
SO GLAD you rescued this from the other video. There is a complete example at the Arkansas Air and Military Museum in Fayetteville, AR if you need a reference.
don't all airplane motors like that have magnetos because the last thing you want is a no-spark situation in the air which a points system and battery could fail and cause?
N3913 1969 BENSEN-WOMACK B-8 Rotorcraft single seat/single passenger (experimental). 72HP MCCULLOCH 4318A&E/0-100. Maximum speed 45 MPH. First registered 12-12-1972. Last action date was 5-20-2008 and expired 6-30-2013. Last registered 06-02-2006. Serial # W0001. Classified under the less than 12,500 pound weight class. Original owner/builder David **** from Wichita, KS. I think that the flight information that FlightAware has is wrong. For some reason it's showing a flight with that tail number that was made in California in 1998 but the plane was a Piper Cherokee PA28. Yet if you click the registration link it gives you details about your gyrocopter.
JR, chop off the top. Rig up a giant parasail setup. Make it into a paramotor trike. Paramotor flight seems way safer than gyrocopter flight. I think car-sized paramotors could be the breakthrough for mass-produced flying vehicles. You could do a proof of concept. You're welcome!
C'mon! You can con someone into flying it! A few wobble pops and bad ideas are contagious! Also, even if you don't fly it it should be kept around as the Watch JR Go Corporate Autogyro! You should pour a small Helo type pad and display it outside the warehouse! This is awesome! I don't even need wobble pops!
On today's episode of WatchJRgo, JR does NOT buy a helicopter because the thing he bought isn't a helicopter and is, in fact, an autogyro, which in no way works anything like a helicopter and is more like an airplane.
My brothers and I lusted for a Bensen as kids. We saw them in the back of comic books. We had lots of go-karts and minibikes over the years, but the 'copter was deemed to be a bit too dangerous. lol
so nice so nice that you had these builts back in the days. We had something similar in USSR era just not helicopters :D points out the freedom of engineer you had back then.
This a Benson model B-8M. The M stands for motorized. The original B-8 was an unpowered Roto-Kite. The B-8 was developed in the 195's and the original manufacturer ceased production in 1987. Plans for homebuilders were still available as of 2019. There are a number of videos on youtube of these being flown.
That's a McColloch 4318A. It's missing the two rotor blades. They won't be cheap but you could get some carbon fibre ones. Apparently they sometimes re-power these with VW 1600's, which I think would be badass.
You may not need a tail number for that or an FAA reg to begin with as it might fall into ultralight rules. (Less than 254lbs dry, less than 55knts top speed) I mean you can register it, and basically self regulate which would get you on an airport, but in KS, a good flat field would do. :)
Before mounting a huge rotary wing on that old thing, you may want to educate yourself on materials used and their properties at this age. Probably don't want to do that.
Please tell us you are going to do a colab with heavy d and Cleetus! Be well man, and be safe 🙏 Also, you know the world is upside down when a $500 vehicle is a helicopter and not a clapped out civic
Put marvel mystery oil in the cylinders and let set and it will free it up to turn over I know I've used it on old rotor tillers that have been sitting for 20 yrs and it freed them up and put carburetor kites in them and cleaned the fuel tanks and got them running again.
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BENSEN-WOMACK B-8 S/N: W0001, Year: 1969, Certificate Issue Date: 12/12/1972, Cancel Date: 10/06/2014, Engine Manufacturer: MCCULLOCH, Engine Model: 4318A&E/0-100. Classification: Experimental. The N3913 was also issued to a 1931 Laird Swallow aircraft. The previous owner from you is a Wichita resident. I have the name and address but will not post it here. Info from FAA.
This should get pinned
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@WatchJRGo here ya go
My Father in law had the exact same model. He rescued it from a local museum here in San Diego. The latch in front is so you can tow it for practice flights without the motor. The motor is a actual drone aircraft motor from the military. Huge 2 stroke and very simple. They were only designed to run full throttle. So getting them to run with a carburetor was interesting. It only spins no more than 3500 RPM or the blade will break the sound barrier and come apart. He upgraded to a VW and later a Subaru both with a belt reduction. They take off very easily and quickly if you point it into the wind. His had a powered rotation which was a starter and also a power cable off the engine. He flew it for years in the CA deserts.
Was he the dude in the Mad Max movie? 😂
Likely the most useful comment he'll receive on this project ... VERY interesting 👍
@@Catiadr came here to look fore any mad max ref. 🤣🤣🤣
Putting it out there you might end up with blueprints and manuals.
This is easily the best follow up info and story I’ve ever read. He sounds like an amazingly interesting dude I bet
Everyone has a car RUclips channel. I think an "Any interesting machine I can get cheap" RUclips channel seems like a great idea!
yes
That’s what I do! 🍻
Someday a video will be “on this episode if watchjrgo, I buy an old train” lol I can only dream
@@WatchJRGo c'mon JR ....live a little...what if the Wright Bros said no?
@@clevelandmaker386 then maybe Wilbur would have lived to a ripe old age instead of being the first person to die in a plane crash.
I don’t think o’reilly’s will have parts in stock for this one….
Ha! Thats what you think! Lol
A friend of mine built his own helicopter and if he were alive today he could tell some great stories about his adventure.
😂😂😂😂
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Watch JR Go . . . gone . . . no, gyrocopters are fairly safe.
i guess he beat the ambulance to the crash scene?
Please tell me he died old, happy and not in his chopper
I found it in FAA registry. Cancel date on registration is 10/06/2014. They let the registration lapse. It appears it had two owners, one in Wheeling, WV prior to the owner in Wichita. Interesting read
A family friend (an accomplished helicopter pilot) built one of those in his basement. His was powered by a Subaru engine. He towed that thing all over the country behind his motorhome and flew everywhere he could. Despite hundreds of hours at the controls of that sketchy looking thing, he died in his bed of unrelated old man things.
gyro copters are among the safest rotor machines you can fly they can't fall out of the sky if your engine quits since they generate their own lift from forward movement. and you can control your speed without the engine running in a controlled "crash" more or less a controlled decent.
Well, normal helicopters don't fall either. When you're training to get your helicopter license, you need to train for engine out landings. Of course, they don't glide as well as a gyro for obvious reasons, but they don't just fall, as I thought before as well 😅
I always love these videos where you’re getting yourself into something crazy and offbeat. Breaks up the normal stuff in the garage. Very nice
Please fully restore it and reach out to an ultra light club to find someone to fly it! So cool!
I think this tops the fire truck for cars and coffee
Same tank as an old outboard pressure tank. I have a few. One way valve at the crankcase provides pressure. That button on the tank is a manual pump to get you going until you build pressure. Also, works as a manual pump if something goes south in the pressure system. I've pumped my way back to shore a few times. Better than rowing.
I was wondering where the benefit of a pressured tank lied. Thank you
At 4:40, the control stick you are moving around and calling the collective is actually the cyclic. It does move the swash plate, true, but it tilts the swash plate in different directions creating individual pitch changes for each blade to control pitch and roll of the entire craft. Yaw is controlled by the foot pedals which operate the rudder as in a fixed wing aircraft. You may have a collective as well, just like a helicopter, but it moves the entire swash plate up and down rather than tilting it, changing the pitch on both blades simultaneously. Most gyroplanes don't have a collective control. If you had one on the Bensen, it would be a longer lever attached near your left hip when seated, which you would raise and lower. Most gyroplanes collective pitch is preset at the factory so you probably don't have one as I mentioned earlier. If you did want to fly it, I would lower the engine mount to be sure the propeller thrust line is below the center of gravity. Power push over was the cause of most gyroplane accidents and it comes from having a ship with that high mounted engine like yours. And even experimentals need to be checked out and test flown by professionals before you take them up on your own.
John, I'm glad that you got that. When you first showed it I had thought that you should, even if left in it's present condition as a decoration. Way too unique to get crushed.
Wouldn’t it make the best set up for a flight sim?! I can see it Right next to the other racing sims he has up on the mezzanine.
Awesome idea Michael!
This series will do really well. Fixing up a $500 Gyrocoptor should get a lot of views and a lot of new subscribers. Once it's going, you've just got to get it airborne, at least once. At least get it to where the wheels are off the ground. If not you, then a willing friend. Honestly jealous, that is one of the coolest things you've ever got.
VT247
Suggest after the restoration you hang it from the shop ceiling like the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. Maybe wire the lights and rotor/prop to spin via electric motors on remote control. 😁
I think this idea is excellent
BTW, I am a helicopter CFI and this isn't a helicopter, it's a gyroplane. Forward thrust is provided by a pusher propeller and you have a rotary wing instead of a fixed wing. It autorotates just from the flow of air over it created by your prop pushing the craft through the air (relative wind). Once autorotation speed is reached from a short takeoff run (300-500 feet, condition dependent) on the ground, there is sufficient lift for flight. An item called a prerotator can spin the rotor fast enough so you can perform a jump takeoff, which can be almost vertical or a very short ground run, like 20 feet.
Looking forward to you either finding or fab-ing as set of main rotor blades. That will be the make or break on this project.
Just a bit of trivia for you. The bolt that holds the rotors to the Gyrocopter is called the "Jesus Bolt". Why? That's the last thing you'll say if it fails in flight.
My best friend's father was the US first helicopter pilot just after WWII - he worked with Igor Sikorsky and flew the first one they ever built - when we were teenagers in the 1960s, he bought a Benson Gyro-copter - same variant as the one you have there. Before you added the engine, they could be towed behind a car in a short boom to get practice - we did that a few times at Plymouth, MA airport. Subsequent tow-trials were with a long tow rope - still no engine. Eventually, the McCulloch drone engine went on. He did a couple short flights and eventually crashed it on take off - they are squirrely. And.. the drone engines were not designed for long duration use - the bearings wore out and siezed up after several hours if I recall correctly. Be safe on that thing, Sir - not likely to have a good outcome if you auger it in from more than 10' altitude.
“Get to the Choppa!” Great throwback JR!!
It would be great to see it rip around and bounce down a runway fully functional at least, even better if you can find someone that could fly it. Very interesting project, I'm all in on this one.
When I was younger several of us tried to build one. The main problem was the rotor and engine. We grew up and found girl's and car's but never forgot about gyro's. You got a great deal although as some one said, ya shoulda got it for scrap price. I used to know a lot about them, but one thing I remember is that they are probably the safest thing you can fly. I was a pilot and my instructor had been a WW2 flight instructor, he always wanted to build one. I think you should fly it at least once.
I am much more excited for this project than I am the side-by-side
Agreed, side by sides are lame, gyrocopters are cool.
You HAVE to fly this. I can't wait.
You're finally read to square off against Lord Humongous in the guzzoline war!
If a little kid throws a boomerang at you, don't try to catch it! 😆
Drop an LS engine into it and that baby will fly.
It wouldn't take off because of the weight lol
Lol but no
Fly it over Whistlindiesels property
😂🤣😅🤣😂
When I was in high school in Fairhope, AL (mid 1970s), you would occasionally see a fellow flying an autogyro over the school... which always brought a crowd of students outside to watch him! I always thought it was the coolest thing, and really wanted one some day! Later in life (mid 1980s), I was the manager of an auto parts store, and one of my customers (a college professor at the University of South Alabama) would come in about once a year to have me order a set of 4 "matched belts" made by Goodyear (matched belts all have the same batch number on them to indicate that they are exactly the same length since they were used on multiple pulley set-ups). The guy had his own autogyro/gyrocopter which used a 4 cylinder air-cooled, flat 4 engine (like a Volkswagen used to use). The engine had a 4 groove pulley which drove a smaller 4 groove pulley which was attached to the pusher prop, and having multiple belts gave you plenty of redundancy in case one broke (or 2 or 3, I guess!). The guy told me that autogyros were some of the safest air vehicles you could fly in (or on?) since the overhead rotor was basically autorotating the entire time the craft was in the air, and you could easily land it even if the pusher engine died by simply "flaring" the rotor blades as you came in for a landing.
Come on JR, get that thing restored and let someone fly it if you don't want to.
A friend of mine has a gyro and it is pretty cool how it can hover after the rotor gets some speed. He has had a non-powered landing but just a slightly bent landing gear and some puckering. I'll stick with drones for my flying but if I was going to try an aircraft it would be a gyro.
Yeah, that Puckering is a highly technical term.
"Non powered landing". What a great description.
I knew it! When I saw that during the crusher episode I thought why does JR buy that.
Oh yea crowd engagement that’s a t-shirt in the making! You have my attention sir.
It's not surprising that it has Magneto's, in fact, most modern piston aircraft are still running Magneto's. It's purely reliability.
Even if you can’t get this thing to work, it will make a great conversation piece for the shop! Get it cleaned up and hang it from the ceiling! It’s too cool to scrap! Thanks for the unusual content!
Only 20 mph to launch. But you will need 100 feet to take off - landing can be done in much shorter. There are still plans online that should help with building parts.
Now you can reenact the movie "Road Warrior"!!! 👍
JR,
So glad you said you're not going to fly it!
You are my favorite car channel and I don't know what I would do if you "bought the farm" flying that helicopter, or whatever it's called.
Orvillllllllle .......... Wilburrrrrrrrrrrr Ross.
Yes that ought to be fun. I flew one years ago and the USAF used to test them. lol.
JR's ADD is kicking in............I soooo want to see you attempt to fly this thing..........go JR gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
You probably already know, but the switch grounds the magneto out to stop it. If the switch is off or the wire is broken, the engine is live. Be careful when you’re trying to move the prop, if it moves and the mag is not grounded, it’s going to spark. Some mags are very easy to start when you don’t expect.
The Gyro Captain called from The Wasteland, he wants his copter back.
Some would say all McCulloch products end up seized! You are way ahead of the game.
That has an Evinrude two hose pressure tank for the fuel system
Thought that looked familiar. My dad had a tank like that for his boat!!
@@rf159a he is going to have to make a new diaphragm for it, they are NLA.
Seaway Marine in Washington State may have the diaphragm for the tank.
@@AndyZ325is last time I tried they didn't in around 2005 for one of my customers. They haven't been produced since the 70's. I had to make them in 82 when I ran a 58 Evinrude on my first boat.
There is an annual inspection for experimental aircraft (although it's called a "condition inspection").
On gyrocopters there is no collective, the rotor is a fixed angle and is always autorotating, it's tilted rearward so that while it's got airspeed it autorotates to create lift.
Experimentals can be much newer/better than "certified" aircraft, but obviously it's a mixed bag
Awesome lawnchair! Love it!!
SO GLAD you rescued this from the other video. There is a complete example at the Arkansas Air and Military Museum in Fayetteville, AR if you need a reference.
What is the engine prop material?
Just wood 🍻
Awesome video JR. Nice build, let's get it started.
Great video. Best of luck getting airborne. All the best & stay well !!!
don't all airplane motors like that have magnetos because the last thing you want is a no-spark situation in the air which a points system and battery could fail and cause?
Super cool but no way I would go up in it!
Gonna call you the Gyro captain from the road warrior!
Since it is experimental it does. To have to file a flight plan. I will fly it for you. Great buy.
Is this the Rob Brown I know? 🧐
Didn't James Bond fly something like that in the one 1960's movie? Real fun.
Little Nellie was her name, she knew how how to look after herself!
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Yes. It was called "Little Nellie". It's creator used to fly it during air shows, right up until it crashed and killed him.
I was told stories about Uncle Jimmy flying this thing.
Mad Max guy too.
N3913 1969 BENSEN-WOMACK B-8 Rotorcraft single seat/single passenger (experimental). 72HP MCCULLOCH 4318A&E/0-100. Maximum speed 45 MPH. First registered 12-12-1972. Last action date was 5-20-2008 and expired 6-30-2013. Last registered 06-02-2006. Serial # W0001. Classified under the less than 12,500 pound weight class. Original owner/builder David **** from Wichita, KS.
I think that the flight information that FlightAware has is wrong. For some reason it's showing a flight with that tail number that was made in California in 1998 but the plane was a Piper Cherokee PA28. Yet if you click the registration link it gives you details about your gyrocopter.
Yes! I am so glad you bought the gyro, I was thinking if you didn't buy that thing i would! No way you can't start a gyro channel!
NICE SCORE!
Nice art for the shop, you could put up on the roof and have it as a giant weathervane.
JR is going Mad Max on em!
You're going to be flying that machine. Mark my words.
LOL, flew from Lancaster to Bakersfield. Bakersfield is my hometown and where I currently reside. Looks like a fun project, can't see the next vid.
Wow, that thing is sick. Several good websites and a few video's on them.
Old Gyros operated free spin. Check out more modern Gyros. Cool build!!
Oh man this build is going to be epic
The thumb pump is to pump fuel to the carburetor. I believe that tank uses a 2 hose supply line...
Drop all other builds and get on THIS! Cant wait to see this thing run
This chiro-gyro-thingy will go a long way to help JR get his pilot's license! Solid investment. 🚁
I love this channel. Smiles per gallon.😅
JR, chop off the top. Rig up a giant parasail setup. Make it into a paramotor trike. Paramotor flight seems way safer than gyrocopter flight. I think car-sized paramotors could be the breakthrough for mass-produced flying vehicles. You could do a proof of concept. You're welcome!
Well in this will be a awesome project m8 looking forward to watching this
This is really cool! I want to see somebody try that thing out. I understand nobody wants to actually fly, but would be fun to see it drive
C'mon! You can con someone into flying it! A few wobble pops and bad ideas are contagious! Also, even if you don't fly it it should be kept around as the Watch JR Go Corporate Autogyro! You should pour a small Helo type pad and display it outside the warehouse! This is awesome! I don't even need wobble pops!
Don’t let Cleetus see this! 🤣
$500?! They should've sold it to you for scrap price 😂
Especially with all the work JR and his dad have put into the car crusher.
So do you think JR and his dad broke even And did all their work for cost?
Even with that engine seized it's worth a good penny
Scrap prices are way up in his area right now. So I think he got it at good price.
It's mostly aluminum, and to buy from the scrapyard you have to pay the processed price. I saved a crappy Model A doodlebug that way years ago.
I knew this was coming home with you as soon as I saw it in the crusher video!
You going up in this thing would be ultimate content.. What possibly could go wrong ? You only need a parachute ..Right !
On today's episode of WatchJRgo, JR does NOT buy a helicopter because the thing he bought isn't a helicopter and is, in fact, an autogyro, which in no way works anything like a helicopter and is more like an airplane.
My brothers and I lusted for a Bensen as kids. We saw them in the back of comic books. We had lots of go-karts and minibikes over the years, but the 'copter was deemed to be a bit too dangerous. lol
I was scrolling, realized what I had just read and then scrolled back to click on the video 😂
Same
Sweet! Glad you bought it. Maybe partner with NIAR in Wichita for some of the aero bits. AMX/Javelin next? Last of the V8 interceptors!
We all knew this was coming!
I did like the way he slow rolled it.
John Ross I'd love to see you do a little road trip in the black Corvette? That car is beautiful...🙂🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇲🇬🇧
He bought it... Absolute madman 🤣🤣🤣
so nice so nice that you had these builts back in the days. We had something similar in USSR era just not helicopters :D points out the freedom of engineer you had back then.
Glad you have the tug to pull the heavy beast around!! Haha 😂
As soon as I saw this in the video I new you'd get it, fun to see you ride round the shop in it 😎
Love these earlier upload times
This a Benson model B-8M. The M stands for motorized. The original B-8 was an unpowered Roto-Kite. The B-8 was developed in the 195's and the original manufacturer ceased production in 1987. Plans for homebuilders were still available as of 2019. There are a number of videos on youtube of these being flown.
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That's a McColloch 4318A. It's missing the two rotor blades. They won't be cheap but you could get some carbon fibre ones. Apparently they sometimes re-power these with VW 1600's, which I think would be badass.
First. I knew you’d buy it!
🥇 boom!
You may not need a tail number for that or an FAA reg to begin with as it might fall into ultralight rules. (Less than 254lbs dry, less than 55knts top speed) I mean you can register it, and basically self regulate which would get you on an airport, but in KS, a good flat field would do. :)
Before mounting a huge rotary wing on that old thing, you may want to educate yourself on materials used and their properties at this age. Probably don't want to do that.
But WHERE would you find a good flat field in Kansas?🤣🤣🤣
I was under the impression that gyrocopters were safer by design than normal helicopters?
Go to HarborFreight grab two wheel barrel rims and tires that is the same size it was on the helicopter and you can get hard tires if you want
Awsome can't wait to see it go ,make it copy of James bond one .
you can totally make that into a mad max 2 movie prop
Yeah, but then he'd have to change his name to "The Gyrocaptain". (Played by Bruce Spence, IIRC)
Little Nellie lives again!
That B-8 Gyrocopter is awesome!
If I had that I would restore it and fly it from NW, PA To Orlando, FL! 😁
Please tell us you are going to do a colab with heavy d and Cleetus! Be well man, and be safe 🙏
Also, you know the world is upside down when a $500 vehicle is a helicopter and not a clapped out civic
With a salvage title. ;)
Put marvel mystery oil in the cylinders and let set and it will free it up to turn over I know I've used it on old rotor tillers that have been sitting for 20 yrs and it freed them up and put carburetor kites in them and cleaned the fuel tanks and got them running again.
Will you be running large or small oil rig🤔
“Kinda kidding.” Deadpan. That made me laugh out loud.