Innovative `Gazda' Provides a Link With the Past

Edited by Paul RichfieldPaul Richfield, in Las Vegas March 01, 2000
Conspicuous at this year's HAI convention -- a show best known for displays of the latest helicopter hardware -- was one of the earliest rotorcraft: the 1945 Gazda Model 100 Helicogyro. The brainchild of Antoine Gazda, an Austrian World War I flying ace who designed the Oerlikon 20mm cannon used by...

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