Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau of Germany and three companions set their seaplane down at the Battery in New York after blazing a 4
chose to cater to these workers and market themselves "by the potent word
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This Times-exclusive puzzle features an image taken by Susan Wright
some were poignant and all were proof that fact is stranger than fiction
Autogiros category-books Captain Wolfgang Von Gronau ofThey're called autogiros, gyroplanes, gyrocopters and rotaplanes. But when a Times reporter saw them for the first time, he described them as "airships resembling dragonflies" and "windmill planes." In this photo, the airships fly, flit and hover over the Battery in Lower Manhattan. "No stranger craft are ever seen in the sky," The Times wroteNov. 16, 1930. "They are neither helicopters nor airplanes, but some of the merits of both _ They can fly slow