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Little Nellie was a rare breed of aviatrix the name of which has its origins in Ancient Greek. In more modern parlance, we have the familiar name autogyro… literally meaning self-turning. The way they work is the same way as a seed from a tree like a Sycamore flies and flying an autogyro is a novel form of taking to the air but one that saved 007!

Juan de la Cierva – the First Count.

The world’s first autogyro, Ciervas’s C1

A replica of the C6

The Cierva C9

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