Raúl Pateras Pescara
Marquis Raúl Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio | |
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| Born | 1890 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | 1966 Paris, France |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Engineering |
| Projects | Pescara helicopters, Nacional Pescara automobile, Pescara auto-compressors, free-piston engines |
| Significant design | Coaxial helicopters, free-piston engines |
| Significant advance | Early use of cyclic pitch and autorotation in helicopters |
Raúl Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio (1890 – 1966), marquis of Pateras-Pescara, was an engineer, lawyer and inventor from Argentina who specialized in automobiles, helicopters and free-piston engines.
Pescara is credited for being one of the first people to successfully utilize cyclic pitch, as well as pioneering the use of autorotation for the safe landing of a damaged helicopter. Pescara also set a world record (at the time) in 1924 for achieving a speed of 13 km/h (8 mph) in a helicopter.