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The Development of the Autogyro

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1926

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1 The negative speeds of advance corresponding to various rates of fall or movement; either without, i.e., “free engine,” or with only inadequate engine powder.

2 The paper also summarises tests taken on propellers of eleven blade sections and twelve blade outlines, and having 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 blades. It also gives a systematic method of solving problems which involve variables which are connected by empirical relations.

3 I.N.A., p. 288 (1917).

4 Appendix I. of this paper, which deals with the helicopter problem, will be found reprinted in the Proc. of the Aer. Soc., Vol. XXVIJ. (1925), p. 337-341.