Rotary-Wing and Lift in this atlas's Aerospace Vehicles category, aircraft that obtain lift from rotating blades or from vertical thrust, together with craft held up by gas lighter than air. Belongs here: a helicopter, a tiltrotor, a vertical takeoff aircraft, an airship or a balloon. Does not belong here: a conventional aeroplane with fixed wings, gathered under Fixed-Wing Aircraft. It is a family within Aerospace Vehicles and is divided into types below it where the atlas has them, with the individual vehicles of each kind, their makes and models, beneath those.
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1. Wikipedia: Rotorcraft
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is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings that spin around a vertical mast to generate lift
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