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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...
...summary HARVARD 1933 MILTON Baldwin, Stone, Woodworth, 1.w. r.w., Lincoln, Lect. Everett, Putnam, Channing, C c. Gallagher, Bowdite Pell, Welcott, Taylor r.w. l.w. Ware, Brow David, Bensen, l.d. r.d. Hallett, Robbins Bailey, Clement, r.d. l.d., Richardson, Saltenstall Bartol, g. g., Spalding...
Sundry gifts, amounting to $20,097.66 were announced for various purposes of the University, and the Director of the Fogg Art Museum reported the receipt of a portrait of Mr. Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, by F. W. Bensen, a gift from the estate of Miss Mary Perry Tuckerman...