The autogiro finds new fans a century after its first liftoff Alice George - Museums Correspondent On January 9, 2023, Spanish aeronautic engineer Juan de la Cierva became the first person to fly an ...

One day in August 1929 the crowds at the National Air Races in Cleveland tittered with amused wonderment to see a winged windmill plump itself down like a weary old hen in midfield. Since then the U.

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AN improved model of the autogiro, demonstrated at Hanworth aerodrome recently, marks a decided advance towards the simplification of ordinary straightforward flying, landing in small areas, and ...

Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter’s city, Bryn ...

Curator Roger Connor admires the Cierva C.8W Autogiro, the United States’ oldest successful rotorcraft, which is currently in storage. If you follow the National Air and Space Museum on Twitter, you ...

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A NEW model of Senor de la Cierva's autogiro, incorporating a radical alteration in the method of control, was demonstrated by the inventor at the London Airport, Hanworth, on April 27. The autogiro ...

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TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander and his pilot were killed Monday in an autogiro accident during an operation near the Pakistani border, state TV reported. The report said that ...