autogiro
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Stuffed with sumo wrestling; trap doors; an autogiro equipped with flamethrowers and missiles; a piranha pool; and, of course, a rocket base hidden inside a volcano, “You Only Live Twice” wasn’t exactly an actor’s breakthrough.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2020
Two days later he took a flying examination, became the first U. S. Governor to get a license to pilot an autogiro.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Inventor Edison saw and applauded the Pitcairn-Cierva autogiro at Newark last September many guessed, because it was only his second visit to any airport, that he had little knowledge of aeronautics.
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Engine failure by itself is not too serious, since a helicopter with a dead rotor acts like an autogiro and windmills down to earth.
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Antioch seniors who want jobs have them, even though one man has been cooking on a Venezuela oil tanker and another is barnstorming the U. S. with an autogiro.
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His father, a onetime farmer with an eighth-grade education, operated a mobile home park and had such mechanical skills that he built autogiros — a combination of airplane and helicopter — from scratch.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2022
Sooner or later it was inevitable that, as autogiros came into common use, there should be crackups.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until that principle of "articulation" was worked out and applied by Senor de la Cierva in 1923, after four years of labor, his autogiros would scuttle along the ground, but they would not fly.
From Time Magazine Archive
With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its scientists gave the world penicillin, autogiros, jet engines and radar.
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