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autogyro, autogiro
1. An aircraft powered by a conventional propeller and supported in flight by a freewheeling, horizontal rotor that provides lift.
2. An aircraft with an unpowered, horizontally rotating propeller on a shaft above the fuselage that provides lift for the machine, with forward propulsion being provided by a conventional propeller: superseded in most applications by the helicopter.
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