Little Wing Autogyro is a series of conventional one and two place autogyros with a tractor engine layout using modern engines and produced by Little...
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An autogyro (from Greek αὐτός and γύρος, "self-turning"), or gyroplane, is a class of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop...
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Little Wing Autogyros, Inc. is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Mayflower, Arkansas and founded by Ron Herron. The company specializes in the...
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Field Little Wing Kelly, the nickname of Bessie Bardot Little Wing Autogyros, Inc., an American aircraft manufacturer Little Wing Autogyro, a series of...
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List of rotorcraft (redirect from List of autogyro models)
S T U V W X Y Z This is a list of rotorcraft, including helicopters, autogyros, rotor kites and convertiplanes. A-B Helicopters A/W 95 Aero HC-2 Heli...
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The Little Wing Roto-Pup is an American autogyro that was designed and produced by Little Wing Autogyros, Inc. of Mayflower, Arkansas, introduced in the...
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States) LiteWing Aircraft LiteTrike LiteWing Aircraft LiteWing Little Wing Autogyro Little Wing LW-1 Original proof of concept prototype Little Wing LW-2 Single...
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Wallis WA-116 Agile (redirect from Wallis WA-116 Agile Autogyro)
The Wallis WA-116 Agile is a British autogyro developed in the early 1960s by former Royal Air Force Wing Commander Ken Wallis. The aircraft was produced...
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Heliofly I (backpack Autogyro-glider) Baumgartl Heliofly III-57 (two contra-rotating helicopter) Baumgartl Heliofly III-59 (little and light disarmable...
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Ken Wallis (section Autogyros)
where he flew one of his WA-116s named Little Nellie. In 1970 it was announced that Airmark would produce his autogyro design with a certificate of airworthiness...
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Airplane (redirect from Powered fixed-wing aircraft)
English) or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller...
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Little Nellie 007 is a 1991 book by Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about the James Bond autogyro, Little Nellie, as featured in the film You Only Live Twice...
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Bulldog Criquet Storch Dehavilland DHC-1 Fokker DR1 Hatz Classic Little Wing Autogyro Nieuport 24 Nieuport 17 Polikarpov I-16 Samson Mite Sopwith Camel...
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Flight control surfaces (redirect from Wing control surface)
principles remain. The controls (stick and rudder) for rotary wing aircraft (helicopter or autogyro) accomplish the same motions about the three axes of rotation...
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A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift. Fixed-wing aircraft...
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Paper plane (section Paper helicopters (autogyros))
This has a ring wing, and flaps for adjusting for flight for stability, positioned on the inboard edge of the ring. While not an autogyro per se, this paper...
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Johnny Miller (aviator) (section Autogyros)
Airplane crash into Autogyro - 1932 Cleveland National Air Races". YouTube. Retrieved 20 May 2020. Charnov, Bruce. "Miller Letter". Rotary Wing Forum. Retrieved...
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as the gyrodyne and winged autogyro, reducing the rotational speed of the rotor and offloading part of its lift to a fixed wing reduces drag, enabling...
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CarterCopter (category Autogyros)
The CarterCopter is an experimental compound autogyro developed by Carter Aviation Technologies in the United States to demonstrate slowed rotor technology...
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Stall (fluid dynamics) (redirect from Wing stall)
rotary wing aircraft which, he hoped, would be unable to stall and which therefore would be safer than aeroplanes. In developing the resulting "autogyro" aircraft...
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bonsai helicopter, called gyrocopter or autogyro "Little Nellie", against four combat helicopters. The autogyro looked indeed like a small helicopter,...
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known as rotor kites. However rotary-winged gliders, 'gyrogliders', were investigated that could descend like an autogyro, using the lift from rotors to reduce...
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Herrick HV-2A Vertaplane (category Low-wing aircraft)
fixed-wing and autogyro configuration took place on July 26, 1937. To do this, the procedure was to tension the rubber cord in the upper wing with two...
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Botany, New South Wales, Australia LiteWing Aircraft, Caryville, Tennessee, United States Little Wing Autogyros, Inc., Mayflower, Arkansas, United States...
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describes the Fa-330 Rotary Wing Kite towed by its mooring to the submarine. The kite was a man-lifter modeled after the autogyro principle". Uboat.net. Retrieved...
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falling largely on the shoulders of a team of volunteers. Eminent autogyro exponent Wing Commander Ken Wallis had a long association with the museum, dating...
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– LISA Airplanes (France) LISUNOV – Lisunov OKB (Russia) LITTLE WING – Little Wing Autogyros Inc (United States) LMAASA – Lockheed Martin Aircraft Argentina...
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WA-116 autogyro "Little Nellie" was included after Ken Adam heard a radio interview with its inventor, RAF Wing Commander Ken Wallis. Little Nellie was...
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found in tractor configuration. An ordinary hang glider is used for its wing and control frame, and the pilot can foot-launch from a hill or from flat...
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right that defined a third type of rotorcraft, including autogyro and helicopter. Having little in common with the later Rotodyne, it was characterised...
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