Word: giro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giro Speed...
...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...
...Giro Over Mexico. Down upon a terrace of the famed Chichen-Itza ruins in Yucatan, where the Carnegie Foundation has an outpost, plumped an autogiro piloted by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey. In less than two hours he had windmilled over the mountains from Merida, a journey which takes most of a day by narrow-gauge rail and wagon. Having flown the first 'giro to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Pilot Yancey visited Mexico City before heading for the U. S. Pacific Coast...
...Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, protesting the calumny. Also, in the absence of Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics Ingalls, he appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Result: the Navy Department retracted its statement, announced an investigation to decide whether the crash was the 'giro's fault or the pilot...
Last week the first 'giro to be seen in Cuba was landed on General Machado Airport, Havana, by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey who flew it from Key West...