Spanish engineer He has been interested in aeronautics since he was a child, making gliders and scale models. In adolescence he makes an airplane capable of transporting people.
Before graduating as a track engineer, he builds a new three-engine airplane that surpasses not only his previous model, but also puts himself at the forefront of the aeronautical experiments of that time worldwide.
During one period he worked in other areas far from his vocation. Travel the world of politics and industry.
Then he returns to aeronautics, focusing his attention on the design of an aircraft that does not depend on the speed of travel to sustain itself in the air. In this way, it creates the autogyro that can keep flying without necessity without having to maintain a speed. The autogyro is constituted as the pioneer development of the helicopter, whose first model is manufactured in Germany in 1939.
De La Cierva creates a company that is dedicated to manufacture and market its invention. However, his passion brings him death, when he is only forty-one years old, trying to take off at an airfield in London.
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