biography
pronunciation:
[thyairva]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1936)
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| biography:
| Aeronautical engineer, born in Murcia, SE Spain. He trained as a civil engineer but became interested in flying, and designed and built a number of gliders and aircraft (1912–19). Following the crash of one of his planes, he developed the autogiro, an aircraft with a freely rotating rotor which provides lift, achieving the first successful flight in 1923. |
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