We were damned fortunate to experience the thrill of a couple of Gyro-copters.
A Hungarian couple living in Socotra use Gyro-copters to rescue people in need of medical help. The Gyro-copters were super light weight and fast as a flying fish. Jirachai and I, with our respective pilots in the cockpit, flew side by side for miles and dive bombed schools of dolphins just off of Yellow Crab Beach. I felt as though I had grown butterfly wings as this machine could dart about as irregularly as a butterfly.
The Gyro-copter, in comparison, made a helicopter feel like lumbering brontosaurus.
We flew for hours and saw the colourful coastline while a sketched and made notes.
Riding a Flying Fish
Bill Bensley
, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
120 × 120 cm
, 47.2 × 47.2 inch
$6,500.00