CIRCULAR FLIGHTS
TWO FRENCH SUCCESSES,
CUNITE» PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOIT.)
(PCBLI3HED W THS TIVBS.) (Received 7th May, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, sth May. M. Etienne Dechmichen, a French engineer, again flew his helicopter, completing a. circle of. 120 metres at a height of two, metres, clearing ground obstacles en route. The machine is fitted with four sustaining propellers, four evolution propellers, a direction propeller, a gyroscope for stability, and a 120 horse-power motor. ' Another inventor, M. Pescara, a-fter wards' flew his heliocopter around a sixty metres circle. These two'are, thet first circular flights made.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 107, 7 May 1923, Page 7
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91CIRCULAR FLIGHTS Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 107, 7 May 1923, Page 7
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