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| 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
jan verhoeven, jan.verhoeven(@)hotmail.com, 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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