
When he was 11 year old, studying 5 grade of the primary school, he built his first four-stroke engine and powered a clothes-washer with it. At the same time Augusto converted an automobile engine for the employment of packed gas as fuel instead of naphtha. Augusto was also devoted to the construction of all the tools for his workshop.
At the age of 12 years, Cicaré left the primary school and abandoned his studies forever, but not his capacity to invent. This took him, when he was 15 year-old, to design a 500 cm3 engine with the camshaft at the head and with a 4 speed gearbox. It was destined to a motorcycle he was about to build, but the circumstances took him to sell the engine to a friend. It was installed in a Harley Davidson motorcycle, and with the money of this engine Augusto started to work on the first parts of what was his life-dream and passion, the helicopter.
The young Augusto continued his mechanical education via the "On the Job Training" method. As a young boy, Mr. Cicare would assist the local long distance truck drivers in his village by helping maintain their equipment. The truckers would reward the young Augusto with all sorts of used parts they gathered for him during their road trips. The young Augusto also began to design and built the machine tools needed to create his innovations such as the motor cycle engine, automatic gear boxes and diesel engines.
At 17 years old, Cicare began to develop a fascination for aviation, perhaps by his trucker friends giving him an appetite via aviation magazines. It took the young Augusto only six years to go from simple fascination of flight to designing, building and piloting his first helicopter.

In these early days (late 1950s, early 60s), Mr. Cicare was not aware of gyroscopic procession (the need to apply the appropriate input 9o degrees in rotation before the desired reaction takes place in the rotor blade system). Cicare learned this and many other aerodynamics principals via the trial and error method. However, once again, this lack of formal training by a talented and observant innovator caused the now 20ish Agusto Cicare to devise new methods of accomplishing the same end result but using considerable less components as was being used by others.














