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Recent Examples of rotorcraft
Unlike rotorcraft drones, bird-like machines could blend efficiency with stealth, navigating turbulent conditions more naturally.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Research into extra-planetary rotorcraft supports missions like Mars rotorcraft exploration and future planetary science breakthroughs.
—Mike Hirschberg, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Amidst an atmosphere of refined revelry catering to glitterati and gearheads alike, this iteration at the Monterey Jet Center featured 275 automobiles and fourteen flying machines—from rotorcraft to private jets.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
This solves one of the most vexing problems of quadrotors and rotorcraft in general — their short operation time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2012
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2025
Research into extra-planetary rotorcraft supports missions like Mars rotorcraft exploration and future planetary science breakthroughs.
—Mike Hirschberg, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Amidst an atmosphere of refined revelry catering to glitterati and gearheads alike, this iteration at the Monterey Jet Center featured 275 automobiles and fourteen flying machines—from rotorcraft to private jets.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025
This solves one of the most vexing problems of quadrotors and rotorcraft in general — their short operation time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rotorcraft
Noun
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The matériel includes drones, helicopters, platforms, spare parts and support systems.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Jan. 2026
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How should parents approach helicopter grandparents?—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This vegetable chopper is backed by over 92,000 five-star ratings by shoppers who say it chops, dices, ribbons, and spiralizes fruits and veggies in seconds.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
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Its serial number matched that of the missing chopper.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
20 Jan. 2026
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But the heroic racers managed to fix it in the dunes, with cargo straps, and the camera ‘copter got some epic footage of the thing clawing its way to the end of the stage.—
Andrew P. Collins,
The Drive,
14 Jan. 2026
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Through trial and error, the team built drones of various shapes and sizes, from the standard quad-copter design to one shaped like a rocket and designed for speed, at a fraction of the cost of commercially available products.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Currently searching are 1 Jayhawk helo from Air STA [station] Ventura, 1 C-27 from Air STA Sacramento, [the] CGC Sea Otter, 1 small boat each from STA SD & the MSST [Maritime Safety and Security Teams], as well as several partner agencies.—
Jesus Mesa
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 June 2025
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Inspired as a child by the supersonic helo on the television series Airwolf, Hill spent 25 years planning the HX50 before unveiling a rendering in 2020.—
J. George Gorant,
Robb Report,
22 Feb. 2025
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“Rotorcraft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rotorcraft. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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