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Roadable Autogiro
Pitcairn Autogiro Company, AC-35,
Roadable Autogiro, 1936. This hybrid automobile/flying machine was one
of a number of aircraft subsidized by the U.S. Department of Air Commerce
in an effort to foster widespread private flying during Franklin D. Roosevelt's
first administration. Although it looks like a helicopter, an autogiro
could not take off straight up or hover like a helicopter. It could operate
from shorter runways than conventional planes, however, and was a stepping
stone to true vertical flight.
from Yesterday's Tomorrow's: Past Visions of the American Future,
Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
and London, 1996, pg. 99.
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