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A kind of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system driven by its engine for takeoff and landing, as well as one or more conventional propellers to provide forward thrust during cruising flight
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From gyro- + -dyne.
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