<p><b> Description: </b> A Pitcairn autogiro flies over Manhattan Island. The brainchild of Spanish aeronautical engineer Juan de la Cierva, the autogiro was developed in the early 1920s.
</p><p>The National Archives' file relates to proposals within the Great Western Railway company to build what would now be called helipads at railway stations.
</p><p><b> Date:</b> c.1931
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