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The autogyro would be tested through policing the rebel-infested mountains and jungles. While the aircraft performed well, its range significantly impaired it. In addition, after the crew only 50 pounds could be carried. Marine historian Robert Debs Heinl, Jr. recounted the autogyro as being an "exasperating contraption".
An autogyro is characterized by a free-spinning rotor that turns because of the passage of air through the rotor from below. [6] [7] The downward component of the total aerodynamic reaction of the rotor gives lift to the vehicle, sustaining it in the air. A separate propeller provides forward thrust and can be placed in a puller configuration ...
The Pitcairn PCA-2 was an autogyro (designated as "autogiro" by Pitcairn) developed in the United States in the early 1930s. [1] It was Harold F. Pitcairn's first autogyro design to be sold in quantity.
The first United States autogyro to dispense with these was the PA-22, which the pilot manoeuvred by altering the rotor plane with a long hanging stick which reached down into the cabin; such designs were termed direct control autogyros. Direct control meant the aircraft could be controlled at the lowest speed at which sufficient lift was ...
Interest in the auto-gyro by the USN resulted in the purchase of two Pitcairn PCA-2 autogyros, modified as two-seat observation platforms, designated XOP-1. Trials with the XOP-1s from 1931 had limited success, but included an operational deployment in Nicaragua from June 1932, with the United States Marine Corps (USMC).
In design, it was similar to the Cierva and Pitcairn autogyros of the day; an airplane-like fuselage with a nose-mounted engine, surmounted by a rotor mast. Like some of Cierva's designs, the K-2 also featured stubby fixed wings for additional lift, also as a mount for ailerons for lateral control.
"She sent me a picture not that long ago on the airplane [saying], 'Mom, you're in this movie,' and it was Drop Dead Gorgeous," Richards says of daughter Sami, 20, who adds, “And I said, 'I'm ...
The Pitcairn PA-19 was a four-seat autogyro developed in the United States in the early 1930s. [1] While most of Pitcairn's autogyro designs featured open cockpits in tandem, the PA-19 had a fully enclosed cabin. [2] [3] It also had wings that carried control surfaces. [2] The rotor provided lift only, but could be tilted in flight to trim the ...