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

Result in 1920 was the first autogiro, which did not fly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over Middleburg, Pa. Pennsylvania's 45-year-old Governor George Howard Earle buzzed about alone in his own autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the propeller motor pulls the autogiro across a flying field the forward motion sets the vanes revolving swiftly, like a great pinwheel.

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City officials first gave the park a thorough DDT spraying by autogiro, then counted the survivors.

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