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    A rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings or rotor blades, which generate lift by rotating around a vertical...
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    transcontinental flight in a rotorcraft, the first to land a rotorcraft on the roof of a building, and the first to fly a scheduled US mail rotorcraft service. He was...
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    Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of an American aircraft manufacturer, now known...
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  • Barnett Rotorcraft is an American aircraft manufacturer established by Jerry Barnett in Olivehurst, California in 1962 to market gyrocopters for homebuilding...
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    Aircraft (section Rotorcraft)
    aircraft being kept in the air by the forward movement of wings, and rotorcraft by spinning wing-shaped rotors sometimes called "rotary wings." A wing...
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  • A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This is a list of rotorcraft, including helicopters, autogyros, rotor kites and convertiplanes. A-B...
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    (from Greek αὐτός and γύρος, "self-turning"), or gyroplane, is a class of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. While...
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    A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and...
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    The Rotorcraft XR-11, known by the company as the X-2 Dragonfly, was an American two-seat lightweight helicopter built in the 1940s for evaluation by the...
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    Camcopter S-100 is an Austrian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using a rotorcraft design. Produced by the Austrian company Schiebel, it was developed from...
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