CHAPTER 87
Amelia Earhart, James Bond and J&J
It’s appeared in episodes of The Simpsons and in a James Bond movie. Legendary pilot Amelia Earhart had one…and so did General Robert Wood Johnson, who used it during the 1930s. What was it?
It was an autogyro.
Robert Wood Johnson’s autogyro in flight, from our archives, 1930s
So…now you know what it was, but still, what on earth is an autogyro, anyway? An autogyro is a forerunner of the modern helicopter, and it looks like a very small plane with a propeller and big rotor blades on top. If you’re interested in how autogyros work, there’s information at this site. And this site has a gr
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