Aircraft configuration that uses a horizontal-axis cyclorotor as a rotor wing
The cyclogyro, or cyclocopter, is an aircraft configuration that uses a horizontal-axis cyclorotor as a rotor wing to provide lift and sometimes also propulsion and control. In principle, the cyclogyro is capable of vertical take off and landing and hovering performance like a helicopter, while potentially benefiting from some of the advantages of a fixed-wing aircraft.
The cyclogyro is distinct from the Flettner airplane which uses a cylindrical wing rotor to harness the Magnus effect.
The cyclogyro, or cyclocopter, is an aircraft configuration that uses a horizontal-axis cyclorotor as a rotor wing to provide lift and sometimes also...
as the primary source of lift, propulsion, and control is known as a cyclogyro or cyclocopter. A unique aspect is that it can change the magnitude and...
fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and gyrodynes. Some VTOL aircraft can operate in other modes...
February 1923, Caldwell filed for a patent on a device he called the "cyclogyro". It consisted of an airplane fuselage with two paddle-wheel like attachments...
generate lift as the drum slowed and it would not be able to sustain flight. Cyclogyro FanWing Servo tab Bonnier Corporation (November 1930). "Whirling Spools...
The FanWing uses a cross-flow fan, while the mechanically more complex cyclogyro comprises multiple wings which rotate together around a central axis....
provide lift and propulsion on a few experimental aeroplanes, known as "cyclogyros". None of them were very successful. It has also more recently been proposed...
powered or unpowered.) An aircraft with a cycloidal rotor wing is called a cyclogyro. Some examples are hybrids comprising a cycloidal rotor around a central...
transportation used by House Atreides in the desert climate of the planet Arrakis. Cyclogyro Gyroplane Human-powered aircraft Insectothopter Micro air vehicle Micromechanical...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to VTOL aircraft. Ducted fan FanWing Cyclogyro Gyrodyne "Osprey Pilots Receive First FAA Powered Lift Ratings", www.boeing...
was tied up at the harbour for ten years, before being sold as scrap. Cyclogyro an analogous attempt (like adapting paddle wheels) to flight Screw-propelled...
compiled with footage of the Gerhardt Cycleplane, various ornithopters, cyclogyros and other contraptions, and often cited as examples of early failed flight...