Juan de la Cierva
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Juan de la Cierva was a Spanish civil and aeronautical engineer. He had tinkered with autogiros by 1912.[1] Jewkes, Sawers, and Stillerman, 1969 say that he became one of the most influential early engineers/designers of helicopters.
Cierva had some rather good 3-motor airplane design in 1914 that the Spanish govt adopted for a war air craft design ?! (He was born in 1895, and that seems too young for him to have affected WWI. However this is what the sources in enwp say.[2][3])
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| Names | Juan de la Cierva; Juan de la Ciera y Codorníu; 1st Count of la Ciera |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 1895 |
| Death date | 1936 |
| Countries | ES |
| Locations | |
| Occupations | civil engineer, aeronautical engineer |
| Tech areas | Helicopter |
| Affiliations | Cierva Autogiro Company |
| Wikidata id | Q354646 |
