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2023Centenary of the First Flight of the Autogyro of Juan de la Cierva, 1923 - First Day Cover

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  • 30.01.2023
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  • 40,9 x 28,8 mm
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About Centenary of the First Flight of the Autogyro of Juan de la Cierva, 1923

Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva; 21 September 1895 in Murcia, Spain – 9 December 1936 in Croydon, United Kingdom) was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary-wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype.

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