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The Autogyro Rotor as a Sail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

The idea of navigating a certain type of sailing boat of mine by an autogyro instead of an ordinary sail has long been a desire of mine, in that I always have considered sailors to be very out of date as to rigs.

In conversation with J. Weir this question arose, whereupon he said that he had within his organisation of the Autogyro Company an engineer named O. Reder who had the same desire. We, therefore, got in touch and although the time was very short got out a rig and installed it upon a very small onedesign class, well-known in the Solent, namely, the Redwing. These boats are about one ton, and the rules governing their racing are that the hulls are standard and that any rig can be used, but that the sail area must not exceed 200 sq. ft.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1934

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