The Late Dennis Kenyon

[@BarryFlo58]

The late great Dennis Kenyon. What a gentleman and master of rotorcraft. I had the pleasure of having Dennis do a few anual check rides for me and would learn something new every time. There was always several of us that were having our check rides with him and he would tell you to never do this or that but if you do then you need to know how to recover. You knew you were in for the ride of your life but his theory was that it's alright saying don't do this or that but it was very easy to actually just do that. Auto rotations and vortex were his specialties but going through these two with him you knew that following his instructions would help you to survive and walk away from getting into them. RIP old mate

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

I knew Dennis from Shoreham but he flew with by dad on Canberra bombers in the 1950;s

[@BarryFlo58]

@@grahamthebaronhesketh. What a nice guy he was, always smiling, I never got down to Shoreham with him as he always came up to Pembrey airport and I think once in Haverfordwest but it was always a pleasure to fly with him. He told us of the time his son went to fly in his own helicopter with a couple of mates and the helicopter fell apart when the the tail boom stabilisers snapped off due to bad welding and which resulted in the deaths of all 3 on board when he was just 18 years old

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

@@BarryFlo58 Yes I remember his Lad we used to chat in the flying club bar, Tragic accident put me off the 300 for ever.

[@BarryFlo58]

@@grahamthebaronhesketh. I did all my training on the 300 which is a very forgiving machine and was doing my solo cross country by 10 hours. I had chance to do a bit of training on the R22 at the time but found it very tight to sit in and didn't fancy doing any auto's in one so stuck with the 300 and then the R 44

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

@@BarryFlo58 I never liked the Robinson, not the 22 or the 44 I went for the Enstrom 280 and 480

[@elizabethsad8023]

What a flyer 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🚁

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

Amazing tallent.

[@leftyfromtx3401]

I've never seen anyone fly a helicopter so well. Very talented

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

Dennis was the best. Very talented pilot.

[@MontanaWelldigger]

Pretty talented, right up to when he ran out of it...

[@grahamthebaronhesketh.]

He did not die in the crash, he died of old age,

[@MontanaWelldigger]

@grahamthebaronhesketh. I said he ran out of talent, I never said he died. It says he walked away.