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The Bensen B-5 was a small rotor kite developed by Igor Bensen in the United States and offered and marketed for home building in 1954. Dubbed the Gyro-Glider it was the first of several such designs that would be sold by Bensen Aircraft Corporation over the following decades.The B-5 was built around a cruciform frame of aluminum tube. A landing wheel was fitted to three points of this cross and a mast was fitted above its centre to support the rotor hub.