THE AUTOGIRO AND HOW TO FLY IT — SIGNED AND VISIT CARD OF THE AUTHOR — EXTREMELY RARE —
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special Features | includes very rare and detailed models on folded inner paper (perfect for modelism) |
| Condition | Excellent |
| Author(s) | Reginald Brie |
| Publisher | Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. |
| Number of pages | 116 |
| Published date | 1934 REVISED SECOND EDITION |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 14 x 21.7 x 1.6 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION CIVILE • AVIATION LÉGÈRE • DIDACTIQUE - TECHNIQUE • HÉLICOPTÈRES - AUTOGIRES |
Description
In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Numerous illustrations; both photographic and line drawings. With a foreword by Juan de la Cierva, the Spanish engineer who built autogiros in the UK in conjunction with Avro. After service with the Royal Flying Corps, and later with the Royal Air Force, Brie took employment with the Cierva Autogiro Company as a test pilot and demonstrator, showing the capabilities of the the Autogiro to the public and trade figures. In 1933 he was convicted of "low and dangerous flying" in an autogiro over the Kingston Bypass road, and in 1935 he became the first pilot to land and take off in a rotorcraft from a ship at sea. Some dustiness to the top edge, light spotting to the edges. Cloth shows some slight rubbing to extremities with the gilt to the spine slightly rubbed and dulled, small white mark to bottom of spine. Some bumping to the corner and to the head cap. A very good copy of a devilishly scarce title.
Senor Don Juan de la Cierva, the inventor of the Autogiro, was born at Murcia, Spain, on 1st September, 1895, and his interest in aviation dates back to his early youth, when he designed and built various types of gliders and aeroplanes.
In 1918 he designed a triple-engined bomber for the Spanish Air Force, and this machine, in many respects in advance of its time, flew successfully, but was crashed later, due to an error in piloting from a stall near the ground.
As a result of this mishap Senor de la Cierva turned his thoughts to the invention of an aircraft which would be independent of speed for safety in flight, and in 1920 he conceived the idea of the freely rotating wing. In 1923 the first successful flight of an Autogiro took place, in 1925 the first British built Autogiro was completed to an Air Ministry order, and in 1926 the Cierva Autogiro Co., Ltd., was formed in this country to develop the principle, with Senor de la Cierva as its Technical Director.