In a couple of places along the video, I wanted to tell the flyer, "Phone home!" CC
From Slashdot.org:
Ken Wallis Autogyro Pioneer Dies At 9748
Posted by samzenpuson Wednesday September 04, 2013 @07:59PM
from the fare-thee-well dept.
from the fare-thee-well dept.
First time accepted submitter gb7djk writes "Wing Commander Ken Wallis the developer and promoter of small autogyros died peacefully today 4th September, aged 97, at his home in Norfolk. Ken is mainly remembered for 'Little Nellie', the tooled up autogyro that took on some helicopters in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. He made the breakthrough discovery of the offset rotor head that made autogyros stable as well as many other aviation inventions. More info here and a video of him flying one of his creations (at the age of 95)."
Yeeow! Someone around here has one of those, but I haven't seen him flying it for ages. I would worry about getting my head lopped off by one of those rotors!
Posted by: Hattie | September 06, 2013 at 06:21 PM
Hattie--One must be a bit careful around any piece of moving machinery. I noted the death of a teenage boy, recently, who had the top part of his head sliced off by the radio-controlled model helicopter that he was putting through stunt maneuvers. We must accord an amount of respect even to our toys.
*GROSS-OUT ALERT*
From the identification on the aircraft of the video (B-BGGW, where "G" indicates Great Brittain) and the (assumed amateur radio) call letters used to identify the submitter (GB7DJK, where, also, "G" indicates Great Brittain), I take it that the Norfolk mentioned as Wing Commander (a clue, itself) Wallis's home refers to the county in England.
Posted by: Cop Car | September 07, 2013 at 07:31 AM
Rest in peace! Always in awe of creative people!!
Posted by: M.E. | September 08, 2013 at 03:49 PM
ME--Horrifically, the teen's father was there with him.
Posted by: Cop Car | September 10, 2013 at 07:53 AM