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...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...
...autogiro builders pride themselves on one thing, it is the security of the rotor assembly, the arrangement of windmill-like vanes which keeps an autogiro aloft. Every layman wants to know what would happen if the blades flew off. Always the answer is: "They don't fly off." Hence, if a 'giro had flown through the window of his Philadelphia office and knocked him from his chair, Vice President Geoffry S. Childs of Autogiro Co. of America could not have been more violently upset than he was by what he read in the Philadelphia Inquirer one day last...
Vice President Childs knew about the crackup. It occurred, he was positive, because the pilot, Staff Sergeant Gordon K. Heritage, USMC, had tried to take off before the rotor was turning at sufficient speed. The ship fell from about 30 ft., wrecking the undercarriage and breaking the rotor blades at the tips when it hit the ground. Otherwise all four blades remained intact...
...survivors-eleven men-were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five...
...would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast, low as well as high, in safety. In all the crack-ups that attended experimentation - and they were not numerous - no one was seriously hurt, not even before de la Cierva learned how to build a rotor that would not fly itself to pieces. Promoter. In sharp contrast to the flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass...