Show AN AIR FLIVVER within live five years a business man living ina distant suburb may board his one passenger air flivver fly to the city and light on his office roof returning at night he may land in his own yard with ease and safety such is the prediction of conserva ti riots and engineers this may happen in less than five years if plans for the commercial manufacture of the autogiro auto gyro are carried out invented by juan de la cierva cherva a spaniard the autogiro auto gyro is fitted with an ordinary airplane motor and propeller but in addition has I 1 revolving wings in a sort of windmill arrangement aran gement which enables it to sustain itself in the air at slow speed thus permitting it to rise or land in the space of an ordinary tennis court the revolving wings are said to give the machine stability in flight 1 besides making a crash to earth almost impossible even though the pilot should entirely lose control it I 1 is declared that it flies like an airplane but settles to earth like a parachute an n american company is perfecting a new design for commercial production if the claims of its promoters are made good the autogiro auto gyro may soon revolutionize short distance passenger traffic |