- An
autogyro (from Gr**** αὐτός and γύρος, "self-turning"), or
gyroplane, is a
class of
rotorcraft that uses an
unpowered rotor in free
autorotation to...
- Breguet-Richet
Gyroplane was an
early French experimental quadcopter rotary-wing
aircraft developed by
Breguet Aviation. The
Gyroplane No.I was one of...
- The
Gyroplane Laboratoire was an
early helicopter. Its designer,
Frenchman Louis Breguet, had
already experimented with
rotorcraft in 1909; however, he...
-
Breguet designed his
first helicopter, the Breguet-Richet
Gyroplane, in 1908 but his 1935
Gyroplane Laboratoire was much more successful. It had no tail rotor...
- The
Avian 2/180
Gyroplane was a two-seat, single-engine
autogyro built in
Canada in the 1960s.
Several prototypes were
built but
series production was...
- one or more horizontally-spinning rotors. By
contrast the
autogyro (or
gyroplane) and
gyrodyne have a free-spinning
rotor for all or part of the flight...
- has been
promoted under the name heliplane.
Originally used to
market gyroplanes built by two
different companies, the term has been
adopted to describe...
- Jacques, and
under the
guidance of
Charles Richet, he
began work on a
gyroplane (the
forerunner of the helicopter) with
flexible wings. On 29 September...
- The
Celier Xenon 2 (also
referred to by the
manufacturer as the
Xenon II) is a
series of
Polish autogyros that was
designed by
Frenchman Raphael Celier...
- the
Atlantic Ocean, as well as with the
unconventional Breguet-Dorand
Gyroplane Laboratoire. It was
active during the
Second World War,
surviving the...
