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Agnew E. Larsen

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who designed a series of pioneering airmail aircraft, and engineered progressive improvements to rotary wing aircraft that are in use in most modern helicopters currently. Larson invented an inflatable gyrocopter parachute that was featured in Popular Mechanics.
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Agnew E. Larsen, a consultant on space research with the Frankford Arsenal in Philadelphia, died of cancer today at the Homestead Nursing Home in Willow ...
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Greg Larsen, Agnew E. Larson's grandson is a business development manager for the Hagerstown, MD, Regional Airport founding
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In 1925 Larsen and Pitcairn approached Cierva about licensing autogiro technology.
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A history in the making: 80 turbulent years in the American general aviation ..
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In 1927, longtime friend, Pitcairn approached Larsen to leave the
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along with Pitcairn for the work on autogiro technology.
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High frontier: a history of aeronautics in Pennsylvania
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Pitcairn Aircraft Company

aircraft engineer
Harold Pitcairn
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Thomas-Morse Aircraft
Pitcairn Aircraft Company
Pitcairn PA-1 Fleetwing
Collier Trophy
Glenn L. Martin Company
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics


"Agnew E. Larsen, Inventor, 73, Dies. Won '30 Collier Trophy for Work on the Autogiro"
The New York Times
ISBN
0876684851
High frontier: a history of aeronautics in Pennsylvania
ISBN
9780822953401
"Larsen's Legacy"
the original
Categories
American aerospace engineers
1969 deaths
1897 births
20th-century American engineers

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