FIVE ....( now I'm awake & can count ... fix my typos!! HA!) members of PRA Chapter 62 - Anahuac/Houston club made the trip to URA's 2014 Rotor's over the Rockies event @ Brigham city airport KBMG!

Stacy & Barbara(& pooch) drove up ... part of a vacation trip, - Chris flew( commercial) in from Wichita & Danny Whitten & Mike Grosshans flew in from Houston ... I think Dean Dolph also drove across.

I can't believe it is a whole week tonight since my arrival & enjoying being Glenn Kerr's guest ... met me @ SLC airport & we drove up the next day.

The primitive camping lot @ Brigham had a good assortment of rigs there ... Kent had arrived & was working on his rotors, .... John & Aggie Brewer from MO with their super gyrotransporter & luxurious RV camper ... their Magni was getting a good work-out over the next days. Sherry & Rick Eichman were there .... Several locals & Gillan Bradley from Portland were also camping. John Rountree & ??? set up swags & tents in the hangar attic area!

Some earlybirds had come & left already ... I missed meeting with Sportcopter M912 flying Nebraska rancher Karl S. ... he & I were doing our builds about the same time .... needless to say he chose his kit-build well & has been flying the rotors off his for a good while!

Glenn had helped Mike with the shuttle flight to get both AirGyro's Calidus & Cavalon located from Spanish Fork to Brigham & also had to get his BFR. It seems that the pre-event activity was centered around Glenn's hangar ... which was pretty cool for him!

Glenn met my Wed eve flight into SLC & we drove to Brigham on Thursday early AM .... Thursday the activity centered over at the big hangar ... I got some time with Michael in the Red Cavalon ... the winds were nice and co-operative most of the day!
The big group activity was the 5pm exodus to Maddox for the meal ... Glenn ,Curt Pittman & I elected for a small group meal of KFC @ Curt's place. More great flying in the evening cool until dark ... the main hangar has a great view of much of the flight area when the 17 pattern is in use!

Friday was the most "structured" day with a couple of forums & thrust / hang tests ... after the awesome group flight to Ogden for breakfast! Charlie Wakamatsu gave an excellent review of this CLT / rebuild of his single AirCommand with 582, then Todd used Glenn's Super-monarch Butterfly ...( in the process of having a heart transplant)... having an engine conversion to a Yamaha genesis 120hp... as a prop for his forum about this engine - explaining it's good features for aircraft use & how to install it! WOW ... a bit of work to do it ... but what a great engine for the application & 1/2 cost(all installed) of similar rotax 4 stroke ... amazing there aren't a lot more in gyros!

A CFI Q&A round-circle meeting with Mike Burton & Cammie Patch ... concluded the days forum activities. Meanwhile out on the south parking area & then in Curt Pittman's hangar the Thrust testing & hang tests were going on ... Glenn & Curt were in charge & did a great job. one of the Colorado contingent Thomas Fernandez helped & tested his neat hydraulic gauge! ... verified a good correlation with the other scale used!

J-Bird ( Jay Gunderson) introduced himself & joked about being a screaming liberal! ... in a hotbed of conservatives! he'd brought his cousin along - Arlen & with John Rountree ... the 3 stayed on for training with Mike B. afterwards.






Lots more but I'm falling asleep here .. post a few pics & back tomorrow!

Next year have to change my ski trip by a few months and make it a rotorcraft trip.

Thank you for the summary of the event. WOW that Yamaha installation seems like a major major overhaul. I will be interested to hear how he likes the performance of the Yammie. I am sure having the density altitude as it is he can use the extra ponies. Thank you for the pictures. Seems as if Kent is really enjoying the long trips

Kent is sure enjoying making his way around the country ... catching a variety of major & minor( as in our local EAA88) fly-ins & visiting family,friends & old pals along the way! I call him the gyro-gypsy ... doing something I/We dream of getting to do around OZ - one day! He's a cool & generous fella!
When Mark Shook's Xenon was grounded by a broken PR cable on Friday ... he picked up the ball to allow newbies a gyro-flight ... when Mike couldn't keep up with the demand! ( Only taking the overflow ... so Mike didn't lose business!)

That is sooo cool. I say we need more guys like him. Mike Grosshan is also a great guy. I like my Texan brothers.

Kent is a good guy, At Barry's get together he told me about his plans to travel all over the country and hit all the events and stop by and see people, looks like it is working out well for him.

Barry is an awesome guy too! I really like him a lot. He is a great ambassador for the sport. I got to go and see him for the next event. I haven't been up there for 2 years now....maybe 3.... Just before Chris Bowen (DirtyDog) died. Man I loved that guy. He was such a great guy. It is a pity what happened to him. Anyways. I was going to fly with Barry but Ron took me up so I kind of missed my chance. All in all they did put up a great show. That was in Wrens. If I recall correctly. They are a great group there. We did have fun. Barry was flying his butt off and he had a terrible headache as I recall. I figured his neck was out from the heavy helmet so I put his neck back in place and took his headache away. Good times....good times. That's the real stuff. The internet is really just a virtual unreality. They are all nice people in person. Even I seem to be nice time to time........
Nahhhhhhhhhh

Finally got my video of the Ogden breakfast flight adventure ... uploaded!

I was honored to be asked to fly along with Kent. It was an unexpected highlight of my ROTR experience!

Just awesome!!!

That's a sweet video. And colorful bunch. Good to see activity on other parts of the land. YAAAYYY

Flying between the Wasach mountains & Great Salt Lake ... was simply stunning scenic overload!!! Jeeze I miss the mountains ...(my OZ home ... lived on the eastern fall of the GDR .... I love high places & the views!!!)

I LOVE the beach/ sea also ... am drooling over your recent excursions along the FL coastline! Keep 'em coming!

I had found it to be extremely difficult to hold the camera still. I think my mast camera attachment works much better than a person trying to streamline the rushing air. I did my best but it turned out to be pretty shaky. Or was it just me sitting behind Jeff the reason???

Probaby Jeff, I am sure that you were still nervous about those Botox injections He was telling you about...

Chris- You deserved the good time you had. Thanks for sharing it.

Chris....simply excellent reporting.

It really seems you had a spanking good time!!!

Like Gabor it is great to see all the activity in the other clubs and gyro events!!

I predict a lot more of this is going to increase unless the

Govrnment completely flops on us and we can not afford fuel costs.

I doubt it will stop me, I'll start a still and make my own. And then we can also have

a sip once in a while.