| The McCandless M4 was a British single-seater ultra-light autogyro first flown in 1961. The original McCandless M4 was powered by a Triumph motor-cycle engine, this was later briefly replaced by a Norton motor-cycle engine which was abandoned in favour of a Volkswagen flat-four four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine which could be connected to the propeller without gears. The McCandless M4 had a cruising speed of 130km/h. www.probertencyclopaedia.com
Ed Kaczmarczyk, e-mail, 19.08.2016 A Triumph engined helicopter device? Back in the 70's, I came across a bungalow between Chepstow and Caldicot which had scrap Volvos and other vehicles in the rough ground of the property. There to my astonishment was an abandoned helicopter/autogiro-? with an iron top end pre unit 650 engine. time passed and I was unable to find the location again. Could it have been one of the Mc Candless creations? I often muse on whether it survived. | Martin Toms, e-mail, 17.04.2015 Does anyone have any information on G-ARWW? My late father built this in our garage & flew it a lot back in the 70s - so perhaps sold it to you Brendan? | James Sheridan, e-mail, 25.06.2014 I bought a 54 inch Avro Avis propeller around 1958 in Belfast. I often wonder if Rex McCandlass used it at sometime. Would anyone have any info. | soccer, e-mail, 14.06.2011 In total there were 8 built. | Brendan Mc Intyre, e-mail, 19.11.2008 Hi Mc Candless MK 4-4 Gyroplane EI-ASR was G-BIPZ I became the owner 1983 I also had a Benson G-ARWW .Between the two machine i put in a lot of flying some time Rex would come to see his machine flying he never liked the Benson. Brendan. | jan verhoeven, e-mail, 09.10.2007 The developers of the McCandless were Rex and Cromie McCandless. McCandless is also the developer of the Featherbed motorcycleframe, first powered with again a Triumph engine, then adopted by Norton for it's excellent behavior for racing and road machines. The McCandlesses also developed the Mule, a Norton-engine driven small all terrain car, and a racertype as well. There are still two (proto)types, one M1 and one M4 at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, and probably one flying VW engine-driven M4 type having registrationnumber EI-ASR. In total there were 8 built. |
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