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1:1 Scale "Mosquito" Helicopter -LarryCanFly

Discussion in 'Helicopters' started by GPS, Sep 8, 2012.

  1. GPS

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    There is a guy in Murphy who has a small helicopter. He has a bunch of videos on his YouTube channel. He even has a turbine engine for it, but changed back to a two stroke.

    I've flown my hexacopter at the golf course in this video.



    There are more interesting videos on Larry's YouTuibe channel here:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/LarryCanFly/
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    I have met this guy, he is also the Pfranc Garmin connector guy, the turbine was on his fabric wing ultralight for a while. Somehow I think he is related to the Hunley Submarine? But I could be wrong about that, I think he was a early on IBM computer guy or something.

    http://www.pfranc.com
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    The guy you're talking about is Larry Berg.  It was his great grandfather that was was somehow associated with that submarine.  I can't remember exactly how.  Larry was a close friend of mine and followed me up here about twenty five years ago.  He had just started Purple Computing when we first met in Ventura California.  He made a fortune building memory modules for the Radio Shack Model 100 and the clone that NEC made of it.  After he moved up here and the Model 100 went away, I got him started in injection molding.  His only product molding was the Garmin connector which he marketed through Pfranc.com.  Larry took his own life in January of this year.

    ...Tiger
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    I was wondering what happened.  It looked like he was posting regularly to his YouTube channel but stopped about ten months ago.

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