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Married. Rod Laver, 27, Australian tennis star, the second amateur ever to win the Australian, Wimbledon, French and U.S. titles in one year (1962), now top moneymaker on the pro circuit; and Mary Bensen, 35, California accountant; she for the second time; in San Rafael, Calif...
...With all due respect to the helicopter industry, permit us to take exception to your statement referring to the Bensen gyrocopter as "the closest thing to a flying chair yet made by man" [May 27]. Textron's Bell Aerosystems Company has been flying for nearly a year a rocket-propelled device known as the Flying Chair. In addition, Bell has developed another rocket-propelled device, the Pogo Stick. These devices have been flown more than 2,500 times with 100% reliability. The Flying Chair doesn't quite match the flight duration of Mr. Bensen's craft...
Bombing Flour Sacks. The craft, so small that it tucks into a garage, so light that it can be lifted to the airfield atop a Thunderbird, was developed by Igor Bensen, 49, a Russian-born engineer. In the 1950s he set up Bensen Aircraft in Raleigh, N.C., to make and market sets of parts, which cost anywhere from $700 without engine to $2,600 for a complete kit that bolts together like an Erector set. To help push his product, Bensen founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association three years ago. Membership has already grown to 4,000 in all 50 states...
...Americans Are Nuts." Behind the homemade helicopter boom are high-soaring thrills, little risk and low cost. Ready-to-fly commercial helicopters cost upwards of $20,000, but Bensen Aircraft Co. of Raleigh, N.C., has sold "several thousand" do-it-yourself kits, ranging in price up to $6,000, has a file of 100,000 potential customers-most of whom already have paid $2 for drawings and general specifications of its products. Two years ago, convinced that "Americans are nuts about helicopters," Los Angeles Copter Buff Tom Adams quit his job as a sheet metal worker at Douglas Aircraft...
...know how high the damned thing will go," says Saalfeld. "I got it up to nearly 6,000 ft. once, and it was still climbing. I came back down because the ground looked so far away I got lonesome." Aircraft Mechanic Tom Pearson has improved on a standard Bensen design, added a four-bladed propeller, a muffler and ground brakes-an uncommon feature on home-built helicopters. Explains Pearson: "If you haven't got brakes, you have to spin the prop, then jump in the seat quick to keep the beast from running away...