Word: autogiros
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...apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September at the National Air Races in Cleveland. Pilot Wilson died of injuries from a collision of his oldtime Curtiss "pusher" with an Autogiro (TIME, Sept...
...observers hope to "shoot" the eclipse from airplanes, among them Dr. Clyde Fisher, president of the Amateur Astronomers Association, near Fryeburg, Me.: Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric at Concord, N. H. John Wells of Southbridge, Mass, will fly over the White Mountains in an autogiro...
Awarded. To Juan de la Cierva, Spanish inventor of the autogiro: the 1932 Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for promotion of aeronautics...
...Wilford Gyroplane which looks like an Autogiro but differs in that its rotor blades are controllable from the cockpit, and rigid save for a feathering motion...
...Last week in London it was discovered that Senor Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the Autogiro, has built and flown a wingless craft which attains terrific speed, ascends steeply and descends gently by means of 'giro-like vanes...