Popular Rotorcraft Association
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Download Member-Created Convention Flyers!:
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Visions from 1930! Amphib Super Gyro!
(Click on image to see 1930 Article)
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FAA Gyroplane Offical
Builders 51% Checklist Just Released!
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Calidus gyroplane owner?
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News:
Vance Breese's Newist Article in EAA Light Plane World.
Important Note For PRA Members:
The magazine back issues from the 1960's Through 2010 were off-line after we
switched to our new web host. Issues are now coming back online and more than 20 issues are now functional.
Additional issues will be added each month until we have the full catalog of back issues available.
These archives are available to MEMBERS ONLY and are located in the MEMBERS ONLY section of the web page.
Gyroplanes to be featured on National Geographic !
GEORGE “JAKE” JACOB, Southern Florida
Featured in "Swamp Flyer"
They call him Jake. “Gyro Jake.” And the locals say he can build anything. In a small Florida town on the bayou, Jake lives alone with a cat named Stinky and a peacock named Birdie. “I got no family,” he says, “But I got gators.” Jake doesn’t have much use for company, but he builds incredible flying machines, in a 20’ x 20’ shed with no walls. Combining high-quality aircraft hardware with junkyard scrap and a “calibrated eye,” Jake builds one-of-a-kind gyroplanes. Last year Jake beat out teams of professional engineers in the National Autogyro Design Competition. He won first place. Oh, and he won second place, too. Jake has the brains of a world-class mathematician and the creativity of a little kid. “Math will get you 80% of the way there,” Jake says. “The rest is experimentation. And you gotta have a junkyard.”
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Phone: (574) 353-7227
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Want To Know About Gyroplanes?
Click HERE for a printable Flyer
The Popular Rotorcraft Association. Based in Mentone, Indiana, USA at the PRA Mentone Airport, PRA was started in 1962 by Igor Bensen, the inventor of the famous Bensen Gyrocopter. Since then it has grown to include rotorcraft of all sorts with members in over 80 countries. We are a group of people who love homebuilt rotorcraft — gyroplanes and helicopters that they build and fly themselves. These rotorcraft enthusiasts get together to exchange ideas, information, help one another, promote safety and help with flight training.
Note: Site May Be Down for Short Periods while we add new features.
Updates will tend to occur (but not limited to) 10-11am / 3-4pm Eastern
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Phone: (574) 353-7227