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A Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 rotor kite
A rotor kite or gyrokite is an unpowered, rotary-wing aircraft. Like an autogyro or helicopter, it relies on lift created by one or more sets of rotors in order to fly. Unlike a helicopter, gyrokites and rotor kites do not have an engine powering their rotors, but while an autogyro has an engine providing forward thrust that keeps the rotor turning, a rotor kite has no engine at all, and relies on either being carried aloft and dropped from another aircraft, or by being towed into the air behind a car or boat or by use of ambient winds for the kiting. As of 2009, no country in the world requires a license to pilot such a craft.[citation needed]
rotorkite or gyrokite is an unpowered, rotary-wing aircraft. Like an autogyro or helicopter, it relies on lift created by one or more sets of rotors...
one or more sets of rotors in order to fly. Unlike a helicopter, autogyros and rotorkites do not have an engine powering their rotors, but while an autogyro...
anchors. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the face of the kite so the wind can lift it. Some kite designs do not need a bridle; box kites can have...
as rotorkite or gyroglider (e.g. Focke Achgelis Fa 330) Dragon (a train of sub-kites) A train of little kites at the Bedford International Kite Festival...
aircraft that generates lift and propulsion by way of one or more powered rotors (sometimes called proprotors) mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles usually...
rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and...
Military assault gliders were also developed during World War II, while the rotorkite was used by the German Navy for seaborne observation. Modern applications...
Recreation Aerostat Airship Buoyancy Kite types Rotorkite Tethered balloon Popular Mechanics Mar 1958 The Type "M" Kite Balloon Handbook, United States Navy...
spin. This spinning increases the speed of airflow over the rotor, to provide lift. Rotorkites are unpowered autogyros, which are towed to give them forward...
The Hafner H.8 Rotachute was a British 1940s experimental one-man rotorkite designed by Raoul Hafner. The Rotachute was the eventual development of a...
conducted research on wing structures and developed a box kite that lifted the weight of a man. His box kite designs were widely adopted. Although he also developed...
A Flettner airplane is a type of rotor airplane which uses a Flettner rotor to provide lift. The rotor comprises a spinning cylinder with circular end...
about in strong winds, so the kite balloon was developed with an aerodynamic shape similar to a non-rigid airship. Both kite balloons and non-rigid airships...
A gyrodyne is a type of VTOL aircraft with a helicopter rotor-like system that is driven by its engine for takeoff and landing only, and includes one...
an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. While similar to a helicopter rotor in appearance, the autogyro's unpowered rotor disc must have...
AV-1. Kytoon Rotorkite Ege, 1973, pp.128–129 Vivian, Evelyn Charles; A History of Aeronautics, Collins 1921, Part III, Chapter VII, "Kite Balloons". Ege...
long range boats were frequently equipped with Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 rotorkite towed rotary-wing aircraft. DeSchiMAG AG Weser of Bremen built eight Type...
vertical flight relative to a tiltrotor. Because the slipstream from the rotor strikes the wing on its smallest dimension, the tiltwing is able to apply...
it refers to any non-rigid aerostat, including barrage balloons and other kite balloons, having a streamlined shape and stabilising tail fins. Some blimps...
experimental aircraft that was essentially a Willys MB combined with a rotorkite, developed with the intention of producing a way of air-dropping off-road...
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