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Recent Examples of tilt-rotor
By 2020, the design brief had morphed through a 12-rotor three-person contender called the Seraph to a tilt-rotor people carrier concept dubbed the VA-1X – which the company's Chief Engineer detailed in an interview shortly after the reveal.
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Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
Abe has reaffirmed Noda’s plan to buy 42 F-35 fighters and has announced his intention to purchase 17 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and 52 amphibious assault vehicles.
—Michael Auslin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
Meanwhile, Boeing has built the V-22 Osprey that uses tilt-rotors to achieve higher flight speeds, though that is bulky and designed for air combat.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 15 May 2024
House investigators have called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to explain problems with the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and what the Pentagon is doing to ensure its safety following a series of crashes that have claimed dozens of service members’ lives.
—Doug Cameron, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
In addition, the aircraft sports 30 tilt-rotors and can fly at an elevation of 10,000 feet.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
Five other Marines were injured when the tilt-rotor plane went down with 23 personnel on board off the coast of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 27 Aug. 2023
This ultralight quality enables the M777 to be transportable via sling underneath a CH-47 Army Chinook or Marine Corps MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey, or like cargo inside any of the Air Force’s airlift transport planes.
—Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
At the near end of the hangar was one of Zdarsky’s Willy Wonka aviation experiments: a CGS Hawk ultralight aircraft fitted with eight tilt-rotor go-kart engines on its wings that allow the craft to both fly like an airplane and hover like a helicopter.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 19 July 2024
Abe has reaffirmed Noda’s plan to buy 42 F-35 fighters and has announced his intention to purchase 17 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and 52 amphibious assault vehicles.
—Michael Auslin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
Meanwhile, Boeing has built the V-22 Osprey that uses tilt-rotors to achieve higher flight speeds, though that is bulky and designed for air combat.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 15 May 2024
House investigators have called on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to explain problems with the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft and what the Pentagon is doing to ensure its safety following a series of crashes that have claimed dozens of service members’ lives.
—Doug Cameron, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
In addition, the aircraft sports 30 tilt-rotors and can fly at an elevation of 10,000 feet.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2023
Five other Marines were injured when the tilt-rotor plane went down with 23 personnel on board off the coast of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 27 Aug. 2023
This ultralight quality enables the M777 to be transportable via sling underneath a CH-47 Army Chinook or Marine Corps MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey, or like cargo inside any of the Air Force’s airlift transport planes.
—Hope Hodge Seck, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2023
At the near end of the hangar was one of Zdarsky’s Willy Wonka aviation experiments: a CGS Hawk ultralight aircraft fitted with eight tilt-rotor go-kart engines on its wings that allow the craft to both fly like an airplane and hover like a helicopter.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tilt-rotor
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Two members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) died in a gyroplane crash near Sirkan, a city in the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchistan, on Monday according to the Fars News Agency.Michael D. Carroll AND Maya Mehrara, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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An 83-year-old woman was killed in a gyroplane plane crash Saturday in Napoleon Township, police said.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2024
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Every Sunday from May through October, the Flying Circus features daring aerobatic stunts in vintage biplanes, transporting spectators back to the golden age of aviation.Kinsey Gidick, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
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You will neither get gunned down by Snoopy in a biplane, nor will a helicopter land on the freeway to give your parents a ticket.Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2024
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
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On September 6 at Piasecki's West Helipad in Essington, Pennsylvania the autonomous rotorcraft made two tethered hover flights.David Szondy, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024
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The rotorcraft is set to arrive at Saturn'’s moon Titan in 2034.Devika Rao, theweek, 31 May 2024
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The parade begins at 5 p.m. on Main Street, kicked off by a seaplane flyover.Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
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Most guests float in on vintage Turtle Air seaplanes to the legendary refuge in the heart of the Yasawas.David Hochman, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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The first that went into mass production was the autogiro, developed in 1923 by Juan de la Cierva in Spain.Edward C. Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2024
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In 1938, Congress approved legislation intended to rescue the autogiro industry.Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
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Towards the nose, there's a front triplane wing, and a large S-duct with adaptive flaps built into the carbon fiber front hood to help things along.New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
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Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.Smithsonian, Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
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Uncle Jack Cassidy lives on the island which is filled with new dinosaur species, giant insects and prehistoric amphibians.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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Today, more than 40 percent of amphibians are at risk of going extinct.Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Tilt-rotor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tilt-rotor. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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