Summary: 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!<br> <br> Juan de la Cierva - the First Count.<br> <br> <br> <br> The world's first autogyro, Ciervas's C1<br> <br> <br> <br> A replica of the C6<br> <br> <br> <br> The Cierva C9<br> <br> <br> <br> The Pitcairn autogyro showing the rotor drive shaft<br> <br> <br> <br> The RAF's autogyro<br> <br> <br> <br> A stamp commemorating the Russian TsAGI 1EA<br> <br> <br> <br> The Fairy Rotordyne<br> <br> <br> <br> The Bensen gyrocopter<br> <br> <br> <br> Mailman Doug's gyrocopter on the west lawn of the Capitol after he was taken into custody.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Focke Wulf Fw-61<br> <br> <br> <br> Little Nellie<br> <br> <br> <br> A modern autogyro<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to L'Aéronautique magazine, Pascual Marín, Gyromike, Diego Dabrio, Johannes Thinesen, NASA, Post of Soviet Union, NACA, Fair Use, Cheesy Mike and Asterion.
