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 obtainslift fromrotating blades ; anautogyro
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A gyroplane rotor is never powered in the air because it lacks a rear-stabilizing rotor like a helicopter.
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Because as a gyroplane it is always in auto-rotate mode.
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