Word: pitcairner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) Juan de la Cierva, Autogiro inventor ... D.E. President Harold F. Pitcairn of Autogiro Co. of America .... D.M.E. Alan Hazeltine, radio neutrodyne inventor .... Sc.D...
...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 by one Joseph Rosen, graduate of the school...
Luckily a missing witness turned up. and almost at the last minute Byam was reprieved. Years later, still in His Majesty's service and still non-mutinous, he went to Tahiti again. His wife was dead, his half- caste daughter married. On Pitcairn Island he found the descendants and a few survivors of the Bounty's mutineers...
Then he marched to his president, Harold F. Pitcairn. Mr. Pitcairn telephoned Rear 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...
Honored. Juan de la Cierva and Harold F. Pitcairn; with the John Scott Award of $1,000 for "ingenious men and women who make useful inventions;" for the invention and development, respectively, of the autogiro; in Philadelphia...