George Moore wrote:

Paul,
   What was so spectacular about the Bensen Tribute, was that 4 "old
timers" flew around the pattern twice in the Missing Man formation, in
old minimalistic Bensen machines using those "widowmaker" McCulloch
Drone engines.

Then on the Third pass, three of them landed, while Ken Brock began
climbing in a corkscrew ascent to the big puffy clouds above (strangely,
the only day we had any clouds at all) !  He climbed for quite awhile,
until he just about reached the clouds (well over 1,000 feet), then he
switched his engine off !   He then began slowly corkscrewing back down
deadstck ! The silence was deafening, since everyone had been asked to
turn off their engines and not fly during this Tribute !  When he got to
about 700 feet the distinct wop, wop, wop of the Rotor Blades was loud
and clear. Finally, in the last 50 feet or so, he turned in from the far
runway, and made a dead stick landing in the middle of that little
taxiway between the two runways, straight out from those big old Oak
trees !

As in other sports, the crowd went wild with applause !

 George

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