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Autogiros

Postby hovermd » Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:32 am

OK MACers - the topic is autogiros...

I REALLY love the autogiro since it fostered in the age of the helicopter. And, autogiros, or gyroplanes, are the oldest of rotorcraft toys.

So, here are a few of my favorites. I'm hoping lots of you folks will cotnribute photos of your autogiro toys.

Hubley "Giro Plane"

Hubley "Giro Plane"


C.K (Kuramochi) Cierva Gyro Plane

C.K (Kuramochi) Cierva Gyro Plane


Tootsietoy Fly-N-Gyro No. 720

Tootsietoy Fly-N-Gyro No. 720



Now, roll out all your cool autogiro toys and blow me away with some stuff I've never seen!!!!
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Re: Autogiros

Postby Tone » Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:51 am

Kuramochi brand toys are great!

The only autogiro I have is the Einfalt Technofix similar to the one posted in another forum, however.

There is a "Pitcairn" lithographed in a checkerboard pattern that's pretty nice-looking.
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Re: Autogiros

Postby grwebster » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:27 am

the Pitcairn was de la Cierva's atuogiro sold under license for USA production.
for the Dinky Toy autogiros see
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2&p=3924#p3924
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Re: Autogiros

Postby grwebster » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:29 am

another good autogiro toy was from Spain's Play Me range. and BTW Mark, they also did a fabulous Cobra.
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Re: Autogiros

Postby alas » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:32 am

here are mine: Tootsie, a (fake) hubley, a broken dinky, a broken Britains (army) and a mint Britains Blue G-ACIN (price realized in 2006 at Christie's:1800 pounds...), The Einfalt/technofix, a Playme, here out of the box, an unknown brand big Spanish Cierva, a recast of/by 'The Bradley Wright Aviation Co from Hamble Aerodrome, Southampton UK', and two diecast metal kits, Cierva C30a from LDM and an Avro Rota (=cierva c30) from MHW models, both in the UK...

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Re: Autogiros

Postby alas » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:26 pm

I do collect pictures too - you never knwo when you'll meet with one in the tin as it were..
This is the pitcairn Tone is talking about earlier



A spanish rico


and a French beauty
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and another earlier rico
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Re: Autogiros

Postby hovermd » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:34 pm

I'm going to re-post a link to the Dinky Autogiro post found elsewhere on the MAC site. There are some great photos and lots of good information on these rare toys:

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=877
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Re: Autogiros

Postby bstewart9 » Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:53 am

Here are some photos of my Hubley Autogiro:

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Re: Autogiros

Postby hovermd » Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:03 am

bstewart9 wrote:Here are some photos of my Hubley Autogiro:

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A beautiful example - that's the definition of "MINT!"
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Re: Autogiros

Postby hovermd » Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:32 pm

Here's my best aquisition of 2012: the C.K (Kuramochi) / E.T.C.O. (Tomiyama) R-674 clockwork autogiro airplane. It's definitely rare; one of the five variants those companys partnered to produce in the 1930s (that I am aware of). Based on my experience, this is the second most rare of the C.K / E.T.C.O autogiros...

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