Rotorcraft Rotorcraft The CarterCopter is an advanced aircraft, a combined fixed wing aeroplane/ autogyro currently under development by Carter Aviation Technologies, a privately owned company based in Wichita Falls, Texas. ...more on Wikipedia about "CarterCopter"
The Fairey Rotodyne was an unconventional aircraft design. A cross between an autogyro and a helicopter and fixed wing aircraft, the Rotodyne had a large, four-bladed rotor, similar to a helicopter's, and two Napier Eland N.E.L.3 turboprops mounted under short wings. The rotor was spun by connecting the main engines to two compressors, by way of a clutch, and the compressed air produced was mixed with fuel and burned from jets on the tips of the blades, and hence no tail rotor was required to counter torque. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fairey Rotodyne"
The Kamov Ka-22 Vintokyrl ( Cyrillic:Камов Ка-22 Винтокрыл) ( Russian:"screw-wing") ( NATO reporting name: "Hoop") was a rotorcraft developed by Kamov for the Soviet Air Force. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kamov Ka-22"
Roton was a concept developed in the late 1990s as a fully reusable Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft. Roton was intended to reduce costs of launching payloads into low earth orbit by a factor of ten. Gary Hudson championed the design and formed the startup Rotary Rocket, Inc (rotaryrocket.com), headquartered in a 45,000-square-foot facility at Mojave Airport. A full-scale test vehicle made three hover flights in 1999, but the company ran out of funds and closed its doors in early 2001. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rotary Rocket"
A rotary-wing aircraft is a broad category of any aircraft with a moving wing, including helicopters and autogyros. A third type, tilt-wing (or tilt-rotor) aircraft, are a recent development. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rotary-wing aircraft"
A tiltrotor aircraft combines the vertical lift capability of a helicopter with the speed of a turboprop aeroplane. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tiltrotor"
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