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Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...
...autogiro which he flew last week is his latest model. The fuselage is 16 ft. long, flat and rather wide. Stub wings with upturned tips extend from each side of the fuselage. The tail structure is 8 ft. wide and has boxed double rudders, double fins, an upper (elevator) and a lower (stabilizer) tail plane. When the tail planes are deflected they meet and act as a single plane. The tractor propeller is 81 in. over all and operated by a Genet-Major five-cylinder radial motor which develops 100 h.p. at 2,400 r.p.m...
...peculiar part of the autogiro is, of course, its four horizontal vanes. Their orbit is 30 ft. in diameter, extending over the tail and beyond the tractor motor...
...entries: Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall of Buffalo, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. Foreign entries: De Havilland Co., Handley-Page Ltd., Vickers Ltd., Gloster Aircraft Co. and Cierva Autogiro, all of England; Societa Italiana Ernesto Breda of Milan...
Last fortnight the French Academy of Sport gave Inventor de la Cierva its grand prize for 1928. Last fortnight, also, the French Flyer Massot flew an autogiro from Paris to Troyes, 86 miles, in one hour...