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Dezso Molnar will give a summary of the work done on this project, and the status of the aircraft as he heads toward flight testing in the spring of the new 2-seat vehicle.

Dezso Molnar is a co-founder and the CTO of Molnari, Inc., a vehicle design company specializing in street-legal aircraft.

Additionally, Dezso is on the flight test crew at Rocket Racing League, was the crew chief for "The Spirit of America" land speed racing team, a judge for the Ansari X Prize, and worked at Truax Engineering to build the first private spacecraft intended for manned flight.

Dezso is a pilot,  flew in the US Air Force, and holds a BS degree from Embry-Riddle University.

The JENTEC Gyrodrone is an un-manned autogyro which uses a set of auto-rotating airfoils to provide lift. The vehicle is safe for ground crews to handle because it has no power applied to the rotor, and it has a shroud enclosing its' powered propellor which shields the crew from injury by the propellor.The shroud is also an aerodynamic surface which provides longitudinal and lateral directional stabilty. The shroud also acts to supress noise from the propellor, and quietness of operation is an asset in any situation. The vehicle is inexpensive because of its' simplicity. The vehicle has spectacular manuever capability for operations from unprepared fields, and in manuver restricted urban areas. The vehicle can take off from unprepared fields in a relatively short distance, or even vertically in a twenty knot wind.The vehicle can loiter over a spot selected for observation by tilting its rotor to turn in a tight circle above the point under observation. The Gyrodrone can land vertically by setting the power to idle mode so it then settles to the ground with the auto-rotating rotor providing a slow descent.

The vehicle can be radio controlled by a pilot on the ground, and/or an autonomous flight control system may be installed providing flight over a pre-determined ground track.

Mr. Dale Lawrence Jensen is an Oregonian having been born in Medford in southern Oregon, and growing up in Portland at the confluence of the Willamette and the Columbia rivers. He attended Benson Polytechnic High School during the 2nd World War. Also, in his youth he learned mountaineering and became a skier on the slopes of Mt. Hood east of Portland in Oregons' Cascade mountains.

When the Korean war began Dale was drafted into the U.S. Army.

Dale took basic training at Fort Ord, California  and was then sent to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the Engineer Replacement Training Center where he learned military engineering principles. After attending the Army's Leadership School, he spent two years training replacements.

Discharged from the army, Dale embarked on an engineering career by attending the University of Washington under the provisions of the G.I. Bill. Obtaining a B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Dale took employment at North American Aviation Missile Division in Downey California where they were working on the Navaho Project: an inter-continental supersonic cruise missile. Subsequently, Dale obtained an M.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and also became a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California.

During his fifty year engineering career, Dale has worked on three of the great engineering projects of the 20th century, the Saturn-Apollo, the Space Shuttle, and the Space Station which gives him a unique view of United States space endeavors.

Currently, Dale is doing business as JENTEC, a technology, engineering, and consulting firm.

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