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 A Good Toy

 

Photo: The Everson brothers standing in front of their aircraft 'Evo III'. Whites Aviation. Early 1930s. MOTAT, Walsh Memorial Library, 16-4696

One of the things I do at MOTAT is to help write blogs and stories for the website and the MOTAT Medium page.

This gyrocopter in MOTAT’s collection was built by Ron and Ernie Everson in 1965. The Eversons – Ernie, in particular – were particularly interested in aviation. They built three other aircraft and some motorcars. You can read a bit more about them on the MOTAT website.

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