Ah, the Cyclonic Rocket!  Master of the air!.  Well, master of a bit of a runway in San Diego.  In the late 1920s, Mr Paul Maiwurm concluded from watching hummingbirds that the way to put the Wright brothers out to pasture was by way of rotating screw drums spun by some sort of rocket to produce powerful "cyclones".

Despite having his first model collapse into a heap before it ever left the ground, Mr Maiwurm was sure that his flying fliver would make him the aerial Henry Ford with a cyclonic-rocket in every garage and that the railway companies would be queuing at his door to invest before Mr Maiwurm put them out of business.  The railway men disagreed and the cyclonic rocket whirled off into history.

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