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rotorcraft
Sign in to saveAlso known as rotary wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft
thumb|A Bell 47 helicopter, an early example of a powered rotorcraft
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- powered aircraft
- Image
- ELA cougar.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rotorcraft
- topic's main category
- Category:Rotorcraft
- time of discovery or invention
- 1907-00-00
- different from
- entomopter
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Classes of rotorcraft
- Helicopter
- Autogyro
- Gyrodyne
- Rotor kite
- Rotor configuration
- Number of blades
- Number of rotors
- Stopped rotors
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|A Bell 47 helicopter, an early example of a powered rotorcraft
A rotary-wing aircraft, rotorwing aircraft or rotorcraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings that spin around a vertical mast to generate lift. The assembly of several rotor blades mounted on a single mast is referred to as a rotor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rotorcraft” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.