Associations to the word «Gyroplane»

Wiktionary

GYROPLANE, noun. Any aircraft that obtains lift from both rotating blades and small wings
GYROPLANE, noun. An autogyro

Dictionary definition

GYROPLANE, noun. An aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope