Word: autogiro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-year feud between Philadelphia's Coal and Autogiro Tycoon Raymond Pitcairn and his ousted gardener literally burst into flame last week. The sprawling rubbish dump the gardener has been carefully developing right across from Pitcairn's neatly manicured estate caught fire, and the Bryn Athyn fire department cheerfully let the eyesore burn...
...observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes. Two cycloidals mounted on either side of the fuselage with blades projecting laterally would make possible a wingless, almost noiseless plane capable of short landings and take-offs like an autogiro (see cut). Professor Kirsten believes it could fly 500 m.p.h...
...late Juan de la Cierva Jr.'s autogiro used helicopter principles in achieving steep take-offs and landings, but is no true helicopter...
Died. Captain Lewis Alonzo Yancey, 44, famed aviation navigator and autogiro pilot; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Yonkers, N. Y. He flew to Rome in 1929 (with Roger Q. Williams...