Over the years, the Gyrocopter was flown and displayed at numerous air shows, garnering a great deal of attention.ĭutkewych donated the B8MG to the Museum in 2002. He modified the aircraft in a number of ways, including adding a muffler. The Gyrocopter exceeded the Transport Canada's engineering and inspection standards.ĭuring the 1970s and early 1980s, Dutkewych flew the aircraft in the greater Toronto area, accumulating over 150 hours of flight time.
Reserve Hangar, Canada Aviation and Space Museum Provenance:Īlexander Dutkewych built this Gyrocopter in Toronto, Ontario in 1974, using a kit produced by Bensen Aircraft Corporation in Raleigh, North Carolina. However, unlike helicopters, gyroplanes cannot hover, take off vertically or fly backwards or sideways. The machines pioneered by Juan de la Cierva in Spain and the Pitcairn and Kellett companies in the United States resulted from their research into rotary wings and their efforts to develop a true helicopter. Gyroplanes were originally designed and built for the commercial market as aircraft capable of very short takeoffs and landings. The rotation of the rotor needs to be initiated on the ground when the aircraft has no forward motion.
Its free-wheeling rotor is spun by the action of the air on its airfoils when the aircraft is in motion propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller. The gyroplane is a rotary-wing aircraft usually associated with the 1930s.
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