Word: autogiros
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...Putnam, who had once publicized the autogiro by making an altitude flight (TIME, April 20), was this time advertising Beechnut products, by a transcontinental flight to and from Oakland, Calif. Her own autogiro, with Beechnut painted on the sides, was the second "windmill plane" to be seen west of the Mississippi. Whatever could be done to publicize the flight, was done, for Beechnut's sake...
...classroom and factory, office or field were maintained with difficulty through last year. But, exulted Antioch last week, "They were maintained." Antioch seniors who want jobs have them, even though one man has been cooking on a Venezuela oil tanker and another is barnstorming the U. S. with an autogiro...
...Autogiro came swimming down upon the South grounds of the White House?first airplane landing on the President's domain. A few minutes later President Hoover presented the Collier Trophy to Harold F. Pitcairn and associates for their development of the Autogiro...
...Pitcairn Autogiro, first display of a small model powered with a 125-h. p. motor and priced...
Publicity Ladies. Nicely timed to give publicity to the planes exhibited at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit, three record flights by women were made last week: Elinor Smith flew a Bellanca Skyrocket to (apparently) 32,500 ft. over New York; at Philadelphia, Amelia Earhart Putnam piloted a Pitcairn autogiro to 19,000 ft., higher than an autogiro had ever been flown; at Detroit, Ruth Nichols streaked along a 3-kilometer course at 210 m. p. h.-almost 30 m. p. h. faster than a record set by Miss Earhart...