Helicopter
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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 land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, ba
VH-SUF, a McDermott Aviation Bell 214 taking off after refuelling.
Cabin view looking out from a helicopter in flight
Bell 412CF looking forward from the tail, showing its twin turbine engine exhausts
1956 Hiller YROE-1 one-man "Rotorcycle" being tested at NASA Ames Research Center
Rotorcraft
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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 mounte
Helicopter
…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 land vertically, to hover, and to fly…
A Bell 47 helicopter, an early example of a powered rotorcraft
A Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter
A Magni M-16 Tandem Trainer autogyro
A Fairey Rotodyne prototype gyrodyne