Autogiros Frame Color:Natural were being offered to Europe-bound

were being offered to Europe-bound travelers

Three years after this photo was taken

perhaps with less gloom and doom

Now available in print for the first time

Autogiros Frame Color:Natural were being offered to Europe-boundThey'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