From autogiro to gyroplane : the amazing survival of an aviation technology / Bruce H. Charnov ; foreword by John Lienhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charnov, Bruce H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autogiros.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Summary:

Charnov tells the 80-year history of the Autogiro, a rotary-wing aircraft that predated the helicopter by two decades and that was almost lost to history before its resurrection as the gyrocopter in the 1950s and 1960s.

Contents:

1. Juan de la Cierva 11

2. Cierva's Autogiro 31

3. Cierva and Harold F. Pitcairn 51

4. Pitcairn and American Autogiro Development 77

5. Development of the Direct Control Autogiro 101

6. American Advances, the C.30A Autogiro, and Cierva's Death 123

7. Pitcairn after Cierva 143

8. Pitcairn, the Kellett Brothers, and the Coming of War 165

9. The Autogiro Goes to War: The Allies 187

10. The Autogiro Goes to War: The Axis 205

11. Igor Bensen and the Development of the Gyrocopter 225

12. Bensen, Tervamaki, Growth of the PRA, and the Fairey Rotodyne 249

13. Failure to Revive the Autogiro: Various Companies Take the Risk 269

14. Transformation of the PRA: Ken Brock, Martin Hollmann, and the Ultralight Revolution 289

15. The Emerging Gyroplane Future 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-370) and index.

ISBN:

1567205038

OCLC:

51280588