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The scholarship honors the Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva. It started back in 2004 with 350 annual scholarships, [3] and it has been awarded every year since then, to date (January 2023). [4] It has provided 2 to 3 years of funding, depending on its modalities, which have varied over time. [1] [5]
Juan de la Cierva's work on rotor-wing dynamics made possible the modern helicopter, whose development as a practical means of flight had been prevented by a lack of understanding of these matters. The understanding that he established is applicable to all rotor-winged aircraft; though lacking true vertical flight capability, work on the ...
Together with the more junior Juan de la Cierva scholarship, it is the most prestigious nationally-funded research scholarship to follow a scientific career in Spain. [2] In fact, it is considered the main talent attraction strategy [3] for Spain to counteract its scientific brain drain. [4]
The Ciervists (Spanish: Ciervistas), also known as the Ciervist Conservatives (Spanish: Conservadores Ciervistas, CC), were a political faction within the Liberal Conservative Party, led by Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel, which split from the party in 1914.
The Cierva Autogiro Company was a British firm established in 1926 to develop the autogyro. The company was set up to further the designs of Juan de la Cierva , a Spanish engineer and pilot, with the financial backing of James George Weir , a Scottish industrialist and aviator.
The Cierva C.4 was an experimental autogiro built by Juan de la Cierva in Spain in 1922 which early the following year became the first autogyro to fly successfully. Failures of De la Cierva's attempts to compensate for dissymmetry of lift with the C.1, C.2, and C.3 autogiros, led him to consider alternative means of enabling an autogyro to fly without rolling over.
Juan de la Cierva y Peñafiel (() March 11, 1864 - () January 11, 1938) was a Spanish politician and lawyer, who served during the reign of Alfonso XIII as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, of the Interior, of War, and of Finance and Development, and in the last government of the monarchy as Minister of Development.
Juan de la Cierva designed a new rotor with a second linkage on the hub to correct the overstrain to eliminate cyclic stresses. To the existing one of abatement that eliminated the problem of lift asymmetry, a second one was added, which was designated as a drag joint , which allowed the blade to oscillate in the plane of rotation.