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autogiro

, autogyro
a self-propelled aircraft supported in flight mainly by unpowered rotating horizontal blades
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

autogiro

[‚ȯd·ō′jī·rō]
(aerospace engineering)
A type of aircraft which utilizes a rotating wing (rotor) to provide lift and a conventional engine-propeller combination to propel the vehicle through the air.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The bottom line is that the Autogiro formulation is not showing the linguistic ambiguity of text.
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Cierva called his creation an "autogiro," and in the course of refining the design, discovered a fatal flaw--the machine rolled uncontrollably once it left the ground.
It took a good deal longer to adjust to the way the rufous hummingbird, like a tiny thrashing autogiro, redisposed itself in space, zapping from point to point too fast for the eye to follow.
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