The world-famous RKIIGA (Riga Red Banner Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers) will celebrate its 106th anniversary in May 2025. Its history started in 1919 when the School of Aviation Mechanics was opened in Kyiv, which later continued its work in Riga. The institute changed names several...
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The Centenary Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1866 - 1966 (Vol 70, No 661, January 1966) carries a piece (pp.235-242) by Raoul Hafner on "British Rotorcraft". He compiled his history by getting first-hand accounts from his helicopter-making colleagues (for he was among them), right...
Hi,
here is an unusual amphibian autogiro aircraft,I think it was from
Cierva design.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1935/1935%20-%200631.html
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