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Cierva, Juan de la
 
 
(hwän d lä thyr´vä) (KEY) , 1895–1936, Spanish aeronautical engineer, inventor of a rotary-wing aircraft called an autogiro. He flew his first autogiro in 1923 and crossed the English Channel in an improved model in 1928.   1
See his Wings of Tomorrow (1931).   2
 
 
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