autogiro
Americannoun
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autogiros
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of autogiro
First recorded in 1920–25; formerly a trademark
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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
President Harold F. Pitcairn of Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., has found such promise in Juan de la Cierva's Autogiro that last week he organized Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America to develop the autogiro in this country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reitsch In Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two days later he took a flying examination, became the first U. S. Governor to get a license to pilot an autogiro.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, small dirigibles might, also autogiros and helicopters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sooner or later it was inevitable that, as autogiros came into common use, there should be crackups.
From Time Magazine Archive
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