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SENOR DE LA CIERVA, lecturing before the Royal Aeronautical Society on March 15, made the first public announcement of the fact that he has produced a type of his autogiro that has achieved direct lift off the ground without any forward run. This was shown by the exhibition of cinema films in which the machine was seen to rise without displacing chocks placed in front of the wheels. Combined with its already proved ability of alighting with a practically negligible run, this makes it possible to visualise aircraft of this type operating from aerodromes of much smaller area, and less carefully kept surface, than hitherto. Sea-going operations, either from rough water or ship decks, are also facilitated by the absence of the need of horizontal run.
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Vertical Take-off with the Autogiro. Nature 135, 464 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135464b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135464b0