tilt rotor

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tilt rotor [′tilt ‚rōd·ər]

(aerospace engineering)

An assembly of rapidly rotating blades on a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, whose plane of rotation can be continuously varied from the horizontal to the vertical, permitting performance as helicopter blades or as propeller blades.

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