LATEST AEROPLANE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 2, 19 September 1928, Page 3

LATEST AEROPLANE.

WINDMILL AUTOGIRO. (Bv Cable.—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service). LONDON, September 18. The “Daily TelegraphV* aviation expert, describing a flight from Southampton to Croydon in the Spanish inventor’s (de la Cierva’s) new windmill autogiro, says: —“The machine bears neither family nor species relationship to aeroplane, airship or balloon. The machine is a vast improvement on the 1925 autogiro. One feels it is safe and adds to the enjoyment of flying. “It has four propellor-1 ike blades, rotating on an almost vertical mast, and can take off after one minute’s preliminary spin, the slowness of which will later he rectified by increased power for the starting gear. The windmill takes care of itself in the air, leaving the pilot free to con-cent-ate on his course and the engine. “The machine landed at Croydon slowly, vertically, without jar, and without moving more than a couple of yards. The flight was made at a speed of 110 miles an hour. The machine probably will be able to land on the deck of an ordinary steamer.”