Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva, was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft called Autogiro, a single-rotor type of aircraft that came to be called autogyro in the English language. In 1923, after four years of experimentation, De la Cierva developed the articulated rotor, which resulted in the world's first successful flight of a stable rotary-wing aircraft, with his C.4 prototype.

Headlines from September 18, 1928

SHIP LOAD OF FOOD LEAVES HERE TODAY; Red Cross Is Sending 1,500,000 Pounds of Supplies to Porto Rico Victims.

Text of President Coolidge's Appeal to Nation To Relieve Hurricane Victims in the West Indies

BIG LOSS IN FRENCH ISLES; Storm Levels Homes, Wrecks Factories and Flattens Crops. 44 DEAD IN THE LEEWARDS St. Croix Razed, Sugar Ruined and $52,000,000 Property Lost in Virgin Islands. MUCH DAMAGE IN NASSAU Homes and Ships Suffer-- Santo Domingo Crops Lost-- Havana Streets Flooded.

FLOOD MENACE IN FLORIDA; Rising Waters Add to the Storm Damage Above Miami District. 24 DROWN IN OKEECHOBEE Nearly Every Building in West Palm Beach Damaged--Improvised Hospitals Overflow. HURRICANE VEERS NORTH Warnings of Its Approach Are Issued in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.

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