Time Best Inventions 2023
Pat & Dennis Bender Experimental Aircraft Development Fund
J. Dennis Bender
Office, Home & Cell Phone: 859-391-5226
5726 La Jolla Blvd. – Suite 311
La Jolla, CA 92037-7345
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Office - 100 Riverside Pl. - Suite 303
Covington, KY 41011-5711
We support experimental-aircraft development and applications for EMS, under-served-rural-communities, native-Americans, border-patrol, forestry-management, educational purposes, etc. (After initially incorporating in KY to form a single 501(c)(3), we dissolved that entity for a simplified form creating two entirely self-financed, private-philanthropies. A Vanguard National Trust account has been setup foreach making annual-grants for specific experimental-aviation-related projects in conjunction with the Experimental Aircraft Assoc. Foundation [EAA] in Oshkosh, WI., the eVTOL organization, San Diego Air & Space Museum and similar organizations. David J. Bender is my Estate Rep.
www.JDBender.com – Pat & Dennis Bender eVTOL Experimental Aviation Fund (Vanguard National Trust)
www.JDBender.org – Pat & Dennis Bender Dementia Diagnosis Fund (Vanguard National Trust)
A ‘Personal Helicopter’ – Ryse-Recon [Actually more-properly an ultralight-eVTOL.]
“He wins who dies with the most toys!”
I already have Time’s Apple Ultra-2 watch on my wrist, [good thing since Apple has had to stop selling them due to a license-infringement-suit problem.] Time listed it in their Best Inventions of 2023, [https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/,] plus I also have their also listed RYSE-Recon on-order; am looking at their Canon MS-500 camera to add to my camera collection; been following hyperspectral-imaging-satellite-technology for many-decades now; and have also ordered a Tesla Cyberbeast to haul around that Ryse-Recon, when it finally arrives. Till then, I’m ordering a new hitch for my C8-Corvette-HTC to be able to haul it out to the desert in order to be able to fly it from our proposed new EAA-114 ultralight--club location, (hoping they stay put where they are currently, much closer by La Jolla than way out in the desert – see my earlier report on all that titled: ‘Ultralight Donation-Plan B.’)
I’ve also previously reviewed their Alef-Aeronautics-Model-A and similar ‘flying-cars’ over the past decades, but previously gave-up on them as impractical, though you can actually buy at least that first one I kept reporting on from my attending 48 weeklong annual EAA shows, prior to switching in the last two years to the new VTOL-weekend meetings, held just before that annual EAA convention in Oshkosh.
Remembering my old adage above, I’m hoping to live long enough to have all of them delivered and being enjoyed before it is too late! My Tesla-Cyberbeast should make next-year’s best-inventions list! Only hope I can get delivery at the end of next year, at about the same time as the RYSE-Recon, hopefully, will being produced and finally delivered to their customers, such as myself.
Just love these innovative new products, just need to be careful not to jump-too-soon, such as with the flying-wings or flying-cars!
The Most Innovative Smart-Watch
The Most Powerful Camera
Pixxel Hyperspectral Imaging Satellites [A project I first worked on at P&G in 1972 with the Landsat-1 launch and which I followed-up on annually, including stopping my their later new facility in the Dakotas on my annual trips between my homes in La Jolla and Covington, KY.]
My picture of one of my flying-wing favorites from back in 2012 at an annual local La Jolla air-show. Now if they would just switch to a hybrid-electric-motor configuration, just like the now Moog-project that I worked with previously, here at Lunken Airfield in Cincy, before switching to the RYSE-Recon project in Mason, OH.
Now a decade later, attached is my current draft project update on my smaller-scale combo-project. Since one requires a tow-vehicle for their aircraft, I decided to do it up right with my now on-order Cyberbeast, in addition to the RYSE-Recon [https://ryseaerotech.com/] Having just ordered, somewhat similar to this flying-wing, but without its range, but at least it can take-off vertically and is electric-powered! Hope it doesn't end-up just another flying-wing in a museum collection, like the project I just donated to the Air & Space Museum in La Jolla.
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