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The Cierva C.17 was a British experimental autogyro built by
Cierva Autogiro Company
The Cierva Autogiro Company was a British firm established in 1926 to develop the autogyro.
The company was set up to further the designs of Juan de la Cierva, a Spanish engineer and pilot, with the financial backing of James George Weir, a Scotti ...
in England in 1928, in association with Avro
AVRO, short for Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep ("General Association of Radio Broadcasting"), was a Dutch public broadcasting association operating within the framework of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep system. It was the first public broad ...
(which designated it their Type 612). It was an attempt to build upon the successful Cierva C.8
The Cierva C.8 was an experimental autogyro built by Juan de la Cierva in England in 1926 in association with Avro. Like Cierva's earlier autogyros, the C.8s were based on existing fixed-wing aircraft fuselages – in this case, the Avro 552.
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design using the smaller, more streamlined fuselage of an Avro Avian IIIA as a starting point. The type was found to be underpowered, and when the first attempt at fitting a more powerful engine still did not result in acceptable performance, the design was abandoned.
Variants
;C.17: Powered by a 67 kW (90 hp) A.D.C. Cirrus III piston engine. ;C.17 Mk II: Powered by an Avro Alpha radial piston engine.Specifications
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References
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