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de la Cierva, Juan (1895 - 1936)

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Spanish engineer and aeronautical scientist, inventor of the autogyre

Juan de la Cierva was born in Murcia in 1895 and since childhood he showed great interest in aeronautics. When he was just 16, he and two colleagues built his first biplane BCD-1. Since there wasn’t Aeronautical Engineer career in Spain, he studied Civil Engineering and ended it in 1919. The same year he designed the bomber biplane C-3. After extending his studies of Aeronautics in England, he designed the autogyro, based on the rotation of paddles located over the aircraft. It was patented in 1920 and its first model, the C-4, flew successfully in 1923 in Madrid. Between 1920 and 1936 he continued to refine its prototypes, performing about 40 models. In December 1936, he died in the crash of the airliner in which he was traveling. Juan de la Cierva was recognized internationally and praised by Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford, with the delivery of the Gold Medal at the Guggenheim International Exhibition in Chicago.
   
variant spelling:
de la Cierva, Juan; de la Cierva y Codorníu, Juan
   
Curriculum vitae  
* 21.09.1895 Murcia, Spain born
1912 He built and flew a biplane, which was designated BCD-1 and was nicknamed the Crab.
1919 Spain He built the C-3, a five-ton bomber biplane.
1920 Spain He patented the Autogiro, an aircraft with a front propeller and in which the wings were replaced by rotating blades.
1920 - 1936 He built 40 different prototypes of his aircraft.
1924 Paris He taked part in the IX Exhibition of Aerodynamics.
1926 London He founded his own company of aircrafts with name "Cierva Autogiro".
19.09.1928 He crossed the English Channel with his autogyro C-8.
1929 Sevilla, Spain The Autogyre is shown in the Iberoamerican Exhibition
† 09.12.1936 United Kingdom died
Collections
Rationalisation, ca. 1920-1950
Literature
 
thumbnail of22253009 El autogiro, in: Dyna, Volume 7. 1932
Author: Schrenk, M.
Published: 1932
 
Secondary literature
 
thumbnail of23753009 Un ingeniero de caminos universal, Juan de la Cierva Codorniú, inventor del autogiro
Author: Angulo Álvarez, Antonio
Published: 2007
 
Images
 
The Cierva C19 autogyro
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Juan de la Cierva in front of his autogiro C-30
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Autogiros flying over New York in 1930
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