Bensen B-5

Bensen B-5

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The Bensen B-5 was a small rotor kite developed by Igor Bensen in the United States in the 1950s and marketed for home building. Dubbed the "Gyro-Glider", it was the first of several such designs that would be sold by Bensen Aircraft Corporation over the following decades.

The B-5 was built around a cruciform frame of aluminum tube. A landing wheel was fitted to three points of this cross, and a mast was fitted above its centre to support the rotor hub. The fourth arm of the cross provided a mounting for a large, plywood fin and rudder, reminiscent of that of the Hafner Rotachute that had shaped Bensen's thinking about rotor kite design.

The aircraft was intended to be towed behind a car, and could be built at home from easily-obtained materials in about three to four weeks.

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