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- noun Plural form of
convertiplane .
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Miller was already a believer in VTOL aircraft, as people were calling convertiplanes by now.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Miller was already a believer in VTOL aircraft, as people were calling convertiplanes by now.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Miller was already a believer in VTOL aircraft, as people were calling convertiplanes by now.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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He concluded that, counting the helicopter, there were sixteen categories of what experts by then were no longer calling convertiplanes but instead “VTOLs,” an acronym for Vertical Take Off and Landing, pronounced “VEE-talls.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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He concluded that, counting the helicopter, there were sixteen categories of what experts by then were no longer calling convertiplanes but instead “VTOLs,” an acronym for Vertical Take Off and Landing, pronounced “VEE-talls.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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He concluded that, counting the helicopter, there were sixteen categories of what experts by then were no longer calling convertiplanes but instead “VTOLs,” an acronym for Vertical Take Off and Landing, pronounced “VEE-talls.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Co-sponsored by the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences and the five-year-old American Helicopter Society, the gathering attracted 250 engineers and others eager to talk about convertiplanes.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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In a 1943 article for the magazine Mechanix Illustrated, Herrick shared his notion of how convertiplanes were about to change the world: Little Jimmie Jr. looks up from his 1950 Model tricycle toward a tiny speck just above the horizon.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Such a machine would rise vertically, convert in midair to horizontal flight, then convert back to land, so in time, they came to call these dream machines “convertiplanes.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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One dreamer who shared that vision was Gerardus Post Herrick, known as Gerard, whose obituary in the September 10, 1955, New York Times noted that he was the “generally acknowledged father of convertiplanes.”
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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