Auto-Gyro Plane Flies Over Channel
SPEED OF 100 M.P.H. UNDER PERFECT CONTROL (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1.35 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday. Aviation critics in Britain and France agree that de la Cierva’s auto-gyro is the most revolutionary aeronautical development of recent years. It is described as a “windmill” because, instead of fixed wings like an airplane, it has four horizontally rotating vanes.
Its cross-Channel flight is described as being as important as Bleriot’s pioneer, flight in 1909. The autogyro reached Cape Grisnez an hour after leaving Croydon. Descents were voluntarily made at Stinglevert and Abbeville, for refreshment, instead of making a single hop from Croydoft to
Paris, where 2,000 people welcomed the inventor after a four-minute descent, which was so vertical that the machine did not move three yards when it landed.
De la Cierva said that the flight was the greatest experience of his lifetime. He found no trouble in controlling either height or the speed. The machine rose to an altitude of 600 metres in three minutes, and averaged 100 miles an hour during the flight.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 463, 19 September 1928, Page 9
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183Auto-Gyro Plane Flies Over Channel Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 463, 19 September 1928, Page 9
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