Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An aircraft, such as a helicopter or autogyro, equipped with wings that rotate about an approximately vertical axis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A type of flying-machine. See the extract.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any aircraft that obtains lift from rotating blades; an autogyro

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller

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Examples

  • Burke Wilford, the gyroplane developer who had organized the 1938 Rotating Wing Aircraft Meeting, was now committed to the quest for the convertiplane himself.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Burke Wilford, the gyroplane developer who had organized the 1938 Rotating Wing Aircraft Meeting, was now committed to the quest for the convertiplane himself.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Since then, Wilford had built a gyroplane, a machine similar to an Autogiro, based on a design he had bought during a visit to Germany in the 1920s.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Burke Wilford, the gyroplane developer who had organized the 1938 Rotating Wing Aircraft Meeting, was now committed to the quest for the convertiplane himself.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Since then, Wilford had built a gyroplane, a machine similar to an Autogiro, based on a design he had bought during a visit to Germany in the 1920s.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Since then, Wilford had built a gyroplane, a machine similar to an Autogiro, based on a design he had bought during a visit to Germany in the 1920s.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Mr Morse died at Long Marston airfield near Stratford upon Avon on Monday following a collision with a gyroplane.

    Man charged with murder by gyrocopter' in hunt case Thatsnews 2009

  • Mr Morse died at Long Marston airfield near Stratford upon Avon on Monday following a collision with a gyroplane.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • A gyroplane rotor is never powered in the air because it lacks a rear-stabilizing rotor like a helicopter.

    The Speculist: April 2005 Archives 2005

  • Because as a gyroplane it is always in auto-rotate mode.

    The Speculist: April 2005 Archives 2005

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