Autogiros Frame Color:Natural Three years after this photo

Three years after this photo was taken

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Military personnel unload landing craft nosed up on the volcanic sands of Iwo Jima beach

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Autogiros Frame Color:Natural Three years after this photoThey're called autogiros, gyroplanes, gyrocopters and rotaplanes. But when a Times reporter saw them for the first time, he described them as "airships resembling dragonflies" and "windmill planes." In this photo, the airships fly, flit and hover over the Battery in Lower Manhattan. "No stranger craft are ever seen in the sky," The Times wroteNov. 16, 1930. "They are neither helicopters nor airplanes, but some of the merits of both _ They can fly slow