Word: giro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Giro ("The Boss") Terranova, 49, onetime Artichoke King; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 31 years of racketeering, Terranova was arrested 14 times, convicted once, jailed never...
...second or third model. Then, according to legend, Music Lover de la Cierva and his wife were at an operatic version of Don Quixote when he noticed that the flexible blades of the stage windmill flapped slightly as they turned. He made the rotor blades of his next giro flexible. In January 1923, it flew...
...first ridiculed as "the whirling dervish of the air," the autogiro gradually improved during a long tour of Europe punctuated by frequent crashes, which proved the giro's safety because Pilot de la Cierva was never hurt. In 1928, when he flew the English Channel, he won recognition. From then on, England was autogiro headquarters. English capital financed the Cierva Autogiro Co. Inventor de la Cierva, Royalist son of King Alfonso's Minister of War, was glad to stay away from Spain after King Alfonso was dethroned. Except for an occasional spree with his four children, he devoted...
Soon to be adapted to the "roadable" giro is Inventor Cierva's new "jump take-off"-a method by which the giro for the first time can actually rise straight into the air. This is done by briefly gearing the rotor blades to the engine and whirling them at top speed while their angle of incidence is zero. When the clutch is disengaged and the blades are suddenly given a sharp angle of incidence, the giro jumps some 15 feet straight off the ground. Then the propeller drags the giro forward...
First readable giro is to be sold to the Bureau of Air Commerce for $12,500. It cost some $80,000 to develop. Eventually, Autogiro Co. of America expects to start mass production, bring the price down toward that of a good automobile. Firm conviction is that the combination of jump take-off and roadability is the only way to end private flying's present prime inconvenience: getting to and from a landing place...