Word: autogiro
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Queer Bird. Iowa's 2,500,000 had never seen such a strange craft as The Des Moines Register and Tribune's autogiro when in 1931-one of the first seven delivered in America-it joined The Register and Tribune air fleet, fourth in its aerial service...
Curious. Their nervousness passed after the pioneer autogiro, in response to insistent invitations, vis ited every one of Iowa's 99 county seat towns (and many another) giving Iowa and lowans a new concept of aviation...
...House (Paramount). Planned a year ago as a parody of Grand Hotel, later rearranged as a starring vehicle for Peggy Hopkins Joyce, this picture emerges finally as a private spree for W. C. Fields. He is a completely demented aviator who, while trying to circumnavigate the globe in an autogiro which contains a small sedan in its fuselage, lands on the roof of a hotel...
...rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan down the fire escape, finally meanders off in his autogiro with Miss Joyce, whom he calls his little buttercup...
...autogiro can climb steeply, land nearly straight down, fly more slowly than a man can run. But it cannot fly fast. The ungainly ''windmill" rotor which accounts for the 'giro's virtues has kept its cruising speed well under 100 m.p.h. Last week New York University announced that its Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics would undertake 'giro speed as a special problem, with funds provided by Harold F. Pitcairn, president of Autogiro Co. of America, U. S. developer of the Cierva invention. Under direction of famed Professor Alexander Klemin, the rotor problem will be tackled...