Word: autogiros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
...Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from...
Died. Juan de la Cierva, 74, reactionary Minister of Justice in Spam's last cabinet under King Alfonso; of diabetes; at Madrid's Norwegian Legation, where he had hidden all through the civil war. He died not knowing that his namesake son, inventor of the autogiro, had been killed in a K. L. M. air crash 13 months before (TIME...
...TIME, July 19, mention was made that the late Amelia Earhart was the first person to fly an autogiro across the continent (U.S.). Please permit me to correct you on this, as I was the first one to do so. My flight started at Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia, on May 14, 1931 and ended at San Diego (North Island Naval Air Station) on May 28, 1931, after a leisurely flight stopping at several cities for demonstrations, etc. My autogiro (a Pitcairn 330 h. p. model) was the first ever seen west of the Mississippi River...
...Kellett Autogiro Corp. Philadelphia...