AUTO-GIRO PLANE
VEITTIGAL LANDINGS. IMPOI: TANT DEVELOPMENTS
RUGBY, Jan. 8
Demonstrations were given yesterday at Heston Air Park of the latest- type •of Sen or de la. Ciervai’s a.uto-giro machine, in which horizontal rotors above the fuselage provide lift, instead of the fixed wings qf the conventional aeroplane.
Since 1926, when -Gierva’s machine was fir'st tested, it. has undergone important developments., advantage having in the meantime been taken of British technical skill in design and construction. Yesterday the inventor demonstrated that the machine could now take off in less space, than a light aeroplane and' land almost vertically on a. space .smaller than a- lawn tennis court. The director of Civil Aviation, Sir Srt'ton Brancker, witnessed till© demonstration and later made a- fight in the machine, which he himself controlled.
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Hawera Star, 13 January 1930, Page 8
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