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...chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...
Last week, day after Manning's wife gave birth to a daughter, his body was washed up at Indiana Harbor with those of his companions. They were partly dressed, unbruised, obviously had tried to swim ashore after the 'giro settled onto the surface with a faulty engine or empty fuel tanks...
...Like all landplanes, autogiros sink in water. Excepting the case of an experimental craft in France last year, 'giro-builders can still claim that no occupant has been killed by a 'giro crash...
...Giro Speed...
...autogiro can climb steeply, land nearly straight down, fly more slowly than a man can run. But it cannot fly fast. The ungainly ''windmill" rotor which accounts for the 'giro's virtues has kept its cruising speed well under 100 m.p.h. Last week New York University announced that its Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics would undertake 'giro speed as a special problem, with funds provided by Harold F. Pitcairn, president of Autogiro Co. of America, U. S. developer of the Cierva invention. Under direction of famed Professor Alexander Klemin, the rotor problem will be tackled...