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Buford John Schramm (14 October 1938 – 28 April 2004), better-known as B.J. Schramm, was a businessman and developer of light personal
helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...
s. He was killed in the crash of a single-seat helicopter of his own design near Montour, about six miles southwest of
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. Schramm founded RotorWay Aircraft in 1961, a kit helicopter manufacturing company. At the time of his death he operated a company called Eagle R&D, based in
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, manufacturing a kit helicopter called the
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. Schramm was the founder of a non-ferrous metal foundry that supplied materials to Bell, Hughes, Sikorsky, Motorolla as well as his own helicopter businesses. Schramm was posthumously inducted into the
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Homebuilder's Hall of Fame in 2006, although he was not a member of that organization at the time of his death.


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Photo of B.J. Schramm in aeromorning.com archives


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