Harold Frederick Pitcairn
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Harold F. Pitcairn (1897 - 1960) was an American aviation inventor and pioneer. He developed the autogyro and founded the Autogiro Company of America. He invented many patents relating to rotary wing aircraft.
He developed the Pitcairn Mailwing and founded Pitcairn Aviation (later to become Eastern Airlines)
He was awarded the Collier Trophy in 1930 for development of the autogyro.[1]
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- ^ Collier Trophy. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
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