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 gyroplane In A Sentence
- Inexperienced pilots of those gyroplanes should not fly in winds above 15 knots.
- 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
- 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
- Let us see your gyroplane, I mean aeroscope -- whatever it is you call it," asked Kennedy. The Silent Bullet
- A gyroplane combines features from an airplane and a helicopter.
- A pilot who died when his gyroplane crashed in North Yorkshire could have lost control when the aircraft's seat worked loose, according to air accident investigators.
- A gyroplane rotor is never powered in the air because it lacks a rear-stabilizing rotor like a helicopter. The Speculist: April 2005 Archives
- 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
- We know which modules need to be mixed and matched to get ratings for airplanes, trikes, gyroplanes, airships, etc.
- I had done it all - not only with the airlines, but I also flew and/or instructed in airplanes, seaplanes, gliders, helicopters and gyroplanes.
