Built by bicycle-maker Paul Cornu, it was an open-framework structure built around a curved steel tube that carried a rotor at either end, and the engine and pilot in the middle.
This was flown experimentally by the French aviator Paul Cornu, who built a prototype with an Antoinett engine.
It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, but named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Paul Cornu, a French engineer who, in a machine of his own construction, was the first man to leave the ground successfully, although not vertically, in a helicopter.
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