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One of First Giro Fliers Joins Plant

A buyer of one of the first Kellett Autogiros and a pioneer in sky banner advertising, Leslie B. Cooper, has joined the sales department of the corporation in connection with autogiro sales.

Mr. Cooper, a member of the 1915 class at Princeton, had his first contact with aviation during the World War. He was a member of the 27th Aero Squadron, First Pursuit Group. He has been associated with the aviation industry continuously since.

During the 20's, he served as sales manager of Fairchild Engine Corporation and later as general sales manager of the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service.

In the early 30's, he purchased one of the first Kellett autogiros and, as president of the Giro Sales and Service Company, acted as Kellett distributor in New York. He successfully developed crop dusting by means of autogiros and later entered the Department of Agriculture where he was in change of their giro dusting for some years. 

More recently, he has been associated with Pitcairn Autogiro Corporation and its successor, Pitcairn-Larson Autogiro Corporation.

Mr. Cooper has approximately 3,000 hours of autogiro flying to his credit.

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Lesli B. Cooper does more than sell and fly autogiros. He even writes verse about them. Here is his latest, written especially for the Kellett News:

Pilot's (Giro) Lament
I'm going to a better land
Where giros do their stuff
Where clutches give you rotor
revs
And rotor blades ain't rough!

I'm going to a better land
Where giros still land slow
But once you jump into the air
Good God! how fast you go!
I'll pass the speedy transport
planes
And wave as I go by
No longer shall the slow freight
trains
Crawl past me when I fly
--Leslie B. Cooper.

P.S.--
Now having written this, I think
It is my only hope
To partly give up taking drink
And cut out taking dope.
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