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Just Hanging Around

By General Aviation News Staff · January 14, 2005 ·

In the past you ran a number of letters covering questions on the four-cylinder, two-cycle engine used on the target drone aircraft used by the military around the end of World War II.

Igor Bensen designed and sold plans for a gyrocopter using the engine in pusher configuration.

Enclosed is a picture of just such a target drone, which hangs from the ceiling of Jerry’s Surplus Sporting Goods Store in Everett, Wash.

Don Passow
Standwood, Wash.

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