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
City officials first gave the park a thorough DDT spraying by autogiro, then counted the survivors.
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While flying for Beechnut Products she made headlines by cracking up an autogiro, nearest thing to a foolproof aircraft.
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Reitsch In Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from.
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In fuselage, tail structure, landing gear and propelling motor the autogiro is a typical airplane.
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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.
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Its scientists gave the world penicillin, autogiros, jet engines and radar.
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But, small dirigibles might, also autogiros and helicopters.
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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.
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