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autogiro

[aw-tuh-jahy-roh] / ˌɔ təˈdʒaɪ roʊ /
NOUN
helicopter
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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

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

In fuselage, tail structure, landing gear and propelling motor the autogiro is a typical airplane.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

But, small dirigibles might, also autogiros and helicopters.

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

Its scientists gave the world penicillin, autogiros, jet engines and radar.

From Time Magazine Archive


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