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Hi Joe.
Like you, I'm into aviation also. I host a site for
the Florida Aviation Historical Society and it's sister site
The Warbird Recovery Team. The FAHS made me the
director of the Warbird Recovery Team where we
go out searching the gulf close to where I live
looking for crashed WW2 aircraft wrecks. We had a lot of training
crashes in the gulf in this area during the war. I
have a buddy in my dive club that has some coordinates
for some sunken wings we are going to check out
soon. We did a recovery several years ago on a crashed
P51 mustang. Check out the two sites. Since you are
into aviation and subs you might especially like the
Warbird Recovery site. I've always wanted to build
myself a Bensen gyrocopter because they are so cheap and
simple (relatively) to build, but with my wetsub
project and everything else I don't think I would have the time
plus
even though they are short take off and pretty easy
to fly, they can be dangerous and my wife would be worried sick
with me flying one of those little eggbeaters. An
intersting thing about the bensen gyrocopters is they were actually
invented and used by the kreigsmarine aboard U
boats. They would bring them out and fly them off the back of the
sub
like a kite to see enemy ships they couldn't see
otherwise. Those models were unpowered and the rotors just
freewheeled.
Here's the two links I mentioned.......
Bill.
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