Word: autogiros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willow Grove, Pa. last week, horses shied, humans stared, as the world's first "readable'' autogiro was successfully demonstrated. With its propeller still and its three 16-ft. rotor-blades folded back like a closed fan, it chugged along the streets of this placid Philadelphia suburb at 25 m.p.h. until the driver decided to take to the air. Stepping out, he easily swung the rotor-blades into place, fixed them there with three pins. Instant later, the little machine rose into the air, buzzed off over the trees at 100 m.p.h...
Over Middleburg, Pa. Pennsylvania's 45-year-old Governor George Howard Earle buzzed about alone in his own autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back...
While their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang...
...four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...
...Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief off the ground with a wing tip. Johnny Miller looped an autogiro...