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- A convertiplane is defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI or World Air Sports Federation) as an aircraft which uses rotor power for...
- The McDonnell XV-1 is an experimental Convertiplane developed by McDonnell Aircraft for a joint research program between the United States Air Force and...
- designs that have unique design features to achieve powered lift. A convertiplane takes off under rotor lift like a helicopter, then transitions to fixed-wing...
- The Hiller X-18 was an experimental cargo transport aircraft designed to be the first testbed for tiltwing and V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing)...
- solely fixed-wing lift in horizontal flight is not a rotorcraft but a convertiplane. A helicopter is a powered rotorcraft with rotors driven by the engine(s)...
- United States Marines, use a tiltrotor or tiltwing. These are called a convertiplane. Others like the British Harrier jump jet use thrust vectoring or other...
- "private plane for the million", a foldable single-engined tiltrotor convertiplane. Richard William Pe****, born at Waitohi Flat, South Canterbury, New...
- multicopter that has four rotors. Although quadrotor helicopters and convertiplanes have long been flown experimentally, the configuration remained a curiosity...
- flight. On 5 January 1959, the Rotodyne set a world speed record in the convertiplane category, at 190.9 mph (307.2 km/h), over a 60-mile (100 km) closed...
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