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RETURNS TO MENTONE %\ %/$,5 %$80*$571(5 6WDII :ULWHU The Popular Rotorcraft Association international convention will take place, Aug. 2-6, at Mentone Airport. Brent Drake, vice-president of the Popular Rotorcraft Association, said the association was incorporated in 1995, but really started with the Igor Bensen, which used to be in all the Popular Mechanics magazines during the late-1960s and early-1970s. The association owns the airport where they host the annual convention. The airport is open for other uses, including a drag racing club and tractor association. People come to the airport to camp. Most of the Popular Rotorcraft Association members are in their 60s. Drake was the president of the association for about 10 years and has been involved since the late 1990s. When he was in junior high, he loved seeing the Bensen gyros in the magazine. “I started flying in 1974. I was flying a champ/cub. It’s a single engine one-personbehind-the-other airplane with cloth-covered wings. It was not a gyro. I always wanted a
gyro, but you couldn’t find anyone around who had one. When I finally saw one, it was still in the box and had never been put together. I traded a furnace for it. This was 1992,” he said. Drake assembled the gyro. Afraid he would hurt himself because they fly differently than airplanes, he went to Greencastle for training. “I had about 15-20 hours of training before I could fly it by myself,” he recalled. “I went ahead and got my private pilot rating, commercial rating and instructor rating for gyros. It took me about four-to-five years to complete all the training. “They don’t stall like an airplane. They chop up the turbulence so you don’t get a rough ride like you do in an airplane. We usually fly them between 500-to-1,000 feet above the ground. We get kits, put them together and get them licensed with the FAA.” Drake said he still has his first gyro and it’s a blast to fly. “They have different rotax engines in them. They are very dependable and the best well-built gasoline engine that they Continued on page 3
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