Anyone who can fly an ordinary airplane can, with little additional instruction, fly an autogiro. But the reverse is not true. If a 'giro-trained pilot should go up in an airplane, throttle down the engine and pull back on the control-stick, as he may safely do in a 'giro, he would have his first—possibly his last—experi-ence with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary private pilot's...
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