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May 21, 2004

David Keck: Grand Champion

Takes The Gold At SWRFI In Rotorcraft Competition

David Keck remembers BJ Schramm. After spending about 600 hours building his HeliCycle in Georgetown (TX), Keck got a week-long visit and a complete familiarization course from the designer himself. After his very first flight in the HeliCycle T62T-32, Keck says he landed and shouted to Schramm, "Thanks for a great helicopter BJ!"

There is a nervous cloud hanging over this week's ASTM Sport Pilot F37 Consensus Standards meeting in Salt Lake City. When the light sport aircraft community decided to climb onboard with the ASTM International, (originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials), in order to deliver the mandated industry consensus standards demanded by the FAA for a full Sport Pilot program, the fear was that there was no way that such a standard could be delivered soon enough after the expected rule to avoid months, or even years, of chaos...