Hi Norm,
Many thanks for sharing that info.
Auto gyros always held my interest and when I was a kid (not to long ago:-) ) I remember drooling over the older Benson ads.
I never built a model but built up 4 Benson gyros.
Does anyone know if the early full size gyros with wings were called auto gyros?
Except for the rotors it looked like a regular plane.
I still want to get a model.
I just got into Helis and I should have picked up a gyro.
Vegas/
[quote]ORIGINAL: normgoyer

Hi guys, This picture was taken from the June 1950 issue of Air Trails magazine. I had built the stand off scale Cierva model from three-views. It had a Torp 29 for power and flew both free flight and u-control. I had seen some autogyros at the Kellet plant in Willow Grove while flying with the Navy.