Autogyro accident stats

[helipaddy]

Hi
Ive searched the net and the forum, but does anyone know where I could find the accident statistics for the Cierva type autogyros flying in the thirties.

Im looking for the reference to the number of fatalities per flying hour.

Thanks
Paddy

[C. Beaty]

From “CIERVA AUTOGIROS” by Peter W. Brooks:

“This was the first Autogiro fatality*. Up to this time, more than 120 Autogiros had been built (including more than 30 prototypes), 30 to 40 pilots had been trained on them, and well over 100 pilots had flown Autogiros in the United States alone. About 35,000 hours had been flown over a total distance of about 2½ million miles. This represented a remarkable safety record. For comparison, General Aviation in the United States had an accident rate of about one fatal accident every 5,000 hours in 1939. This had improved to about one every 40,000 hours by 1969-a rate not attained by General Aviation in the United Kingdom until 1974. Autogiros were therefore remarkably safe during this early period, even while engaged in experimental and development flying, their safety record being comparable to General Aviation 40 years later.”

*Fatal crash of a C.L.10 in 1932.

[barnstorm2]

If ChuckB does not reply to this thread might want to do a search of his posts.

I think he has some of that data.

[barnstorm2]

Oops. I should have just waited a few more min...

[helipaddy]

Chuck, Thanks a million!