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
Last fortnight, also, the French Flyer Massot flew an autogiro from Paris to Troyes, 86 miles, in one hour.
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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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In fuselage, tail structure, landing gear and propelling motor the autogiro is a typical airplane.
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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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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
Its scientists gave the world penicillin, autogiros, jet engines and radar.
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Sooner or later it was inevitable that, as autogiros came into common use, there should be crackups.
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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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But, small dirigibles might, also autogiros and helicopters.
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