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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 WINGLittle 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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