AUSTRALIAN AUTOGIROS KEPT ON GROUND
AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATES CANCELLED PERTH, February 5. The certificates of airworthiness of autogiros in Australia have been cancelled because of a fracture of the spar of one rotor blade of a di-rect-control machine which landed at Fremantle last month. [The first fatal autogiro accident there has ever been occurred in England recently, and a few days later a pilot was injured in the Australian accident. The rotor blades are built up in much the same way as aeroplane wings, with spars and ribs. The direct control autogiro is the latest model, in which there are no ailerons on rudimentary wings, as there were in earlier models. The control column moves the whole of the rotor.]
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21391, 6 February 1935, Page 11
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