The light rotary flock

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-BIGP, The Helicopter Museum’s Bensen B-8M Gyro-Copter, a single-seat homebuilt autogyro put together from a kit near Shrewsbury by Richard Cooper with John Whittle, first registered in October 1980 and flown from a private strip for 204 hours until its permit lapsed in 1997, then stored and given to the museum at Weston-super-Mare in 2008: the best-known of the American Igor Bensen’s kit-built gyroplanes, an open frame of square aluminium tube carrying the pilot’s seat in front of a mast, a 72 hp McCulloch flat-four two-stroke driving a pusher propeller behind it, a free-turning 20 ft two-blade teetering rotor on top and a tricycle undercarriage with a small guard wheel under the tail, shown standing on its wheels with the rotor blades fore and aft: bare aluminium frame and blades, a red vinyl seat with a blue harness and a red fuel tank beneath it, a dark blue fin and rudder carrying a cream ‘G-BIGP’ and a ringed cream ‘CG’ monogram on both sides, a Union flag on top of the tailplane and the white-painted spare propeller fitted after the original wooden one was damaged, as displayed (the mast follows G-BIGP’s photographs, which show a taller one than the published 6 ft 3 in height implies, and the engine, pre-rotator drive and control linkages are simplified). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 217 models · download .glb (256 KB) · Plate 173 in The Hangar