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20th September 2006 | 12:58

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barit1

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From: flyover country USA

Some Autogiro history

Of interest:
Juan de la Cierva’s invention and development of the autogyro began in 1919. The word Autogiro was a Cierva Company trademark, to be spelled with a capital A and with the “i”. The generic term is autogyro, with a lower case “a” and a “y”. Autogiro is Spanish for autogyro.

I believe "gyrocopter" was Igor Benson's name for the type.

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