"After its engine had been started up, its passenger put in his early morning physical exercises in setting the windmill in motion [using a rope]. Then Reynolds lowered his flag, and C.8 L.2 proceeded majestically across the aerodrome, at the far end of which it made a wide circle to the right, gathering speed the meanwhile and, almost completely hidden from view owing to the "dip" in the ground at that end, looking for all the world like a threshing machine working overtime.

It continued thus over the aerodrome back towards the starting line, and then, turning into the wind, the pilot opened out and up it went in fine style, banking round into the course for Norwich as smartly as any of the other machines.

It would  seem that it is only a matter of evolving some means of quickly reviving up the windmill and the Autogiro would take off as speedily as the ordinary type of machine."

[the next model, the C.19, had an ingenious pivoting tail to deflect the airflow and thereby turn the rotor on the ground.]