Word: autogiros
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...observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes. Two cycloidals mounted on either side of the fuselage with blades projecting laterally would make possible a wingless, almost noiseless plane capable of short landings and take-offs like an autogiro (see cut). Professor Kirsten believes it could fly 500 m.p.h...
...late Juan de la Cierva Jr.'s autogiro used helicopter principles in achieving steep take-offs and landings, but is no true helicopter...
Died. Captain Lewis Alonzo Yancey, 44, famed aviation navigator and autogiro pilot; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Yonkers, N. Y. He flew to Rome in 1929 (with Roger Q. Williams...
...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...