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==Early life== Juan de la Cierva was born to a wealthy, aristocratic Spanish family, and for a time his father was the war minister.<ref name="Queensland Times">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article117627268 |title=Autogiro's Inventor |newspaper=[[Queensland Times]] |volume=LXXVII |issue=15,674 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=10 February 1937 |access-date=12 November 2021 |page=11 }}</ref> At the age of eight he was spending his pocket money with his friends on experiments with gliders in one of his father's work sheds. In their teens they constructed an aeroplane from the wreckage they had bought from a French aviator who had crashed the plane. The final aeroplane used wood from a Spanish bar counter for the propeller.<ref name ="Queensland Times"/> He eventually earned a civil engineering degree and after building and testing the first successful autogyro, moved to the United Kingdom in 1925, where, with the support of Scottish industrialist [[James George Weir|James G. Weir]], he established the [[Cierva Autogiro Company]]. At the outbreak of the [[Spanish Civil War]], De la Cierva supported the Nationalist coalition forces, helping the rebels to obtain the [[de Havilland Dragon Rapide|De Havilland DH-89 'Dragon Rapide']] which flew General Franco from the [[Canary Islands]] to [[Spanish Morocco]]. His brother was summarily executed by the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republican]] army in [[Paracuellos del Jarama]].
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