n an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller
If autogiro builders pride themselves on one thing, it is the security of the rotor assembly, the arrangement of windmill-like vanes which keeps an autogiro aloft.
Her own autogiro, with Beechnut painted on the sides, was the second "windmill plane" to be seen west of the Mississippi.
Some purport to see in the autogiro the means of putting aviation on a new basis, viz, the long-dreamed of "flying for everybody.