| Oshkosh, WI.
My eyes were opened at this year’s Airventure. For years and years I have been listening to aircraft builders telling me that it took between 2 – 5 years to complete their builds. Yes, there have been a few EAA One Week Wonder events, but in my mind at least that did not count. Usually, every One Week Wonder project, has the best of the best builders on those projects, not to mention the huge amount of volunteers that assist as well. Then I stumbled upon Kieth Furst in the ultralight section. His was a truly self built project. Yes he did have a builder assist support from the folks at Cierva Aero, but it this man works a full time job and he was flying in under a year! That is what got my attention. Not only was it an Autogyro MTO Classic, but it was equipped with a Rotax 912iS injected engine as well. As this aircraft normally comes with a Rotax carburetted engine, Kieth had to fabricate all the additional mounting and put in the extra wiring. He truly made a thing of beauty. Here is his story … |
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