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From: tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: personal helicopters
Message-ID: <67@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 15:09:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 15:09:05 1984
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With an FAA Inspector, I observed a flight test for a gyrocopter rating by
one of my students in a Benson back in 1970.  He passed the flight test,
got his temporary certificate, climbed back in and went "once around the
pattern" as a victory celebration.  Turning base to final, just a little
bit late and into a slight cross-wind, the "widow maker" did it's finest
and crashed just short of the tarmac.  Gyrocopter = totally demolished.
Pilot = broken left arm.  Don't think that he ever flew a gyro after that.

Ted Jardine
CFI ASME Instruments
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TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
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