Word: autogiros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honored. Juan de la Cierva and Harold F. Pitcairn; with the John Scott Award of $1,000 for "ingenious men and women who make useful inventions;" for the invention and development, respectively, of the autogiro; in Philadelphia...
...airway from Tampa. The throttle rod of their Bird biplane broke; down the ship slanted, gently but permanently, into the 6-ft. swamp grass and ooze. Next noonday another pilot who was imprudent enough to fly the short-cut spotted the stranded plane, hurried on to Miami whence an autogiro and two Goodyear blimps were sent to the rescue. Gently the blimp Puritan eased itself down until the men could grasp the railing around the bottom of the gondola, pull themselves aboard. No one could think of a way to recover the airplane, which was undamaged...
Anyone who can fly an ordinary airplane can, with little additional instruction, fly an autogiro. But the reverse is not true. If a 'giro-trained pilot should go up in an airplane, throttle down the engine and pull back on the control-stick, as he may safely do in a 'giro, he would have his first-possibly his last-experi-ence with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary...
Last week it was revealed that the Department of Commerce has created a new license for autogiro pilots, qualifying the holder to fly autogiros only. Hereafter, for a full private license the student must perform in a conventional plane. Holders of limited commercial and transport licenses may qualify for special autogiro ratings, just as they must qualify to fly each class of airplane...
Amelia Earhart Putnam, who three months ago cracked up an Autogiro in taking off (TIME, June 22). last week cracked one up in landing at Michigan State Fair Grounds. Mrs. Putnam was unhurt, but her husband, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, tripped over a wire as he raced to the scene, had to be taken to a hospital...