tilt-rotor aircraft

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tilt-rotor aircraft: see vertical takeoff and landing aircraft vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL), craft capable of rising and descending vertically from and to the ground, thus requiring no runway. While a balloon or an airship has obvious VTOL capability, both are very inefficient at moving parallel to the earth's
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