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    Autogyro (redirect from Autogiro)
    front-mounted engine and propeller. The term Autogiro became trademarked by the Cierva Autogiro Company. De la Cierva's Autogiro is considered the predecessor of...
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  • The Cierva Autogiro Company was a British firm established in 1926 to develop the autogyro. The company was set up to further the designs of Juan de la...
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    aircraft. An early proponent of the autogyro, the company, later known as the Autogiro Company of America among other names, remained in business until 1948....
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    Cierva C.30 (redirect from Cievra Autogiro)
    designed by Juan de la Cierva and built under licence from the Cierva Autogiro Company by A V Roe & Co Ltd (Avro), Lioré-et-Olivier and Focke-Wulf. Before...
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    The Autogiro Company of America AC-35 was an early attempt to make a roadable aircraft in the United States during the 1930s. Although it was successfully...
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    The Kellett Autogiro Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer from 1929 based in Philadelphia, named after founder W. Wallace Kellett. The Kellett...
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    The Buhl A-1 Autogiro was an autogyro optimised for air camera work designed and built from 1930. To this end, Etienne Dormoy designed[citation needed]...
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    The Pitcairn PCA-2 was an autogyro (designated as "autogiro" by Pitcairn) developed in the United States in the early 1930s. It was Harold F. Pitcairn's...
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    designed the gyrodyne whilst serving as the chief engineer of the Cierva Autogiro Company. The gyrodyne was envisioned as an intermediate type of rotorcraft...
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    The Kellett KD-1 was a 1930s American autogyro built by the Kellett Autogiro Company. It had the distinction of being the first practical rotary-wing aircraft...
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    Bell 47. Heinrich Focke at Focke-Wulf had purchased a license from Cierva Autogiro Company, which according to Frank Kingston Smith Sr., included "the fully...
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    Type 33/1 was a 1930s British single-seat autogiro design by David Kay. David Kay had first flown an autogiro (the Type 32/1) in 1932 but it was damaged...
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    famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the...
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    Sun. August 26, 1929. "Miss Earhart Sets Autogiro Record", The New York Times, April 9, 1931, p. 1 "The Autogiro Flies the Mail!", by W. David Lewis, in...
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    He played a key role in the development of the autogyro and founded the Autogiro Company of America. He patented a number of innovations relating to rotary...
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    Work on what would become the Skeeter had been commenced by the Cierva Autogiro Company as the Cierva W.14. Following Saunders-Roe's takeover of Cierva's...
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  • The Cierva W.5 was a helicopter developed by the Cierva Autogiro Company in the United Kingdom. It was a single seater twin rotor helicopter- the rotors...
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    The Cierva W.11 Air Horse was a helicopter developed by the Cierva Autogiro Company in the United Kingdom during the mid-1940s. The largest helicopter...
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    Historic Aerauto PL.5C Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton...
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    favoring the helicopter over the autogiro as an approach to rotary-winged flight. Realizing this, the Kellett Autogiro Corporation made a proposal to the...
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    machine is most notable for a newsreel that captured the incident. The Autogiro Company of America AC-35 was a prototype roadable autogyro, flown on 26...
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  • ISBN 3-7637-5464-4. Lienhard, Bruce H. Charnov ; foreword by John (2003). From autogiro to gyroplane : the amazing survival of an aviation technology. Westport...
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    World War II 1943 1945 225 Kellett R-8 Experimental helicopter Kellett Autogiro Corporation Prototype. Program canceled 1946. 1944 Never 2 Bell H-13 Sioux...
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    Historic Aerauto PL.5C Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton...
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  • Historic Aerauto PL.5C Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton...
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    In 1943, primary investor G & J Weir Ltd. revived the moribund Cierva Autogiro Company to develop an experimental helicopter to Air Ministry Specification...
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    Cierva C.6 autogiro...
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    Historic Aerauto PL.5C Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton...
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    Stieglitz.[citation needed] Using rotor technology licensed from the Cierva Autogiro Company, a single radial engine drove twin rotors, set on tubular steel...
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  • Historic Aerauto PL.5C Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton...
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