NOUN
- an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller
How To Use autogiro In A Sentence
- The retired RAF wing commander, who flew Little Nellie in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, set the world speed record in 2002 when his autogiro reached 129.1 mph.
- But his autogiro was too fast for their antiquated ships and they lost him. "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 5
- 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
- Capitol, climbing out of his autogiro after a quick game of golf, see this link. Boing Boing
- My autogiro is over here and we can be in my apartment in no time at all. "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 1
- The game is up for him, then, as even though he captures Vincent, who has been dressed as The Shadow, he reckons without The Shadow's autogiro, and explosive entrance through his window many floors up, to effect a rescue. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Death Tower - Maxwell Grant
- Oh, I'll see your Blackberry and raise you an autogiro. Boing Boing
- During the war a tiny number of helicopters and autogiros were employed, sometimes actually seeing action, though success was sporadic at best.
- Excited by the prospect, visionaries from the competing rotary wing tribes—Autogiro, helicopter, and convertiplane—gathered to debate how it should be spent. The Dream Machine
- During the event, test pilot James G. Ray—the same James G. Ray who later envisioned a convertiplane in every garage—landed an Autogiro on the White House lawn and took off in it again. The Dream Machine
