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Autogiros featured-sports-photos when a stagnant mass parkedThey'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