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  • Sikorsky suggested adding a tail rotor, today standard on most single-rotor helicopters.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Sikorsky suggested adding a tail rotor, today standard on most single-rotor helicopters.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Sikorsky suggested adding a tail rotor, today standard on most single-rotor helicopters.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, a unit of United Technologies, each had offered a single-rotor helicopter.

    Air Force Decision May Spur 2007

  • He'll join Lindbergh on a panel with a veritable who's who of aviation-history names, including Amanda Wright Lane, great-grandniece of Orville and Wilbur Wright; Sergei Sikorsky, son of Igor Sikorsky, who created the first single-rotor, mass-produced helicopter; and Wolfgang von Zeppelin, great-great-grandnephew of airship developer Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Equipped with a rotor measuring roughly 60 feet in diameter, the three-bladed horizontal-axis AR1000 aims to be among the world's most powerful single-rotor tidal turbine, delivering 1 MW of power from tidal resources moving at speeds of about eight feet per second.

    unknown title 2011

  • That's odd, as everything I've read about real-world coaxials says they're more maneuverable in 3D than single-rotor/tail rotor designs.

    The Tech Report: News 2010

  • That's odd, as everything I've read about real-world coaxials says they're more maneuverable in 3D than single-rotor/tail rotor designs.

    The Tech Report: News 2010

  • That's odd, as everything I've read about real-world coaxials says they're more maneuverable in 3D than single-rotor/tail rotor designs.

    The Tech Report: News 2010

  • That's odd, as everything I've read about real-world coaxials says they're more maneuverable in 3D than single-rotor/tail rotor designs.

    The Tech Report: News 2010

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