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Answer for the clue "Helicopterlike vehicle ", 8 letters:
autogyro

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Word definitions for autogyro in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller [syn: autogiro , gyroplane ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of autogiro English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
autogyro \autogyro\ n. an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller. Syn: autogiro, gryoplane

Usage examples of autogyro.

Looming larger as it neared the pier, the autogyro settled leisurely until its wheels seemed to pass on either side of the balanced figure in black.

A dozen or so yellow-painted ground vehicles and two green autogyros stood about at random points within the blast radius, as though they had miraculously survived it.

New Babylonian trucks driven by Illyrian troops and escorted by Lapithian motorcycle outriders and a clattering autogyro high overhead.

Prison Department guards might have challenged and surrounded an autogyro, and impounded an unauthorized boat.

The autogyro swept by with its fixed landing gear barely skimming the pavement.

He moved in for a close-up of the boy's flank and took his shirt off followed the pants down, circled the pubic hair forest in slow autogyros, zeroed in for the first stirrings of tumescence, swooping from the stiffening blood tube to the boy's face, sucking eyes with neon proboscis, licking testicles and rectum.

The Fed autogyros Stephen had seen in the past used radial engines.

These ranged from a vast, tri-motored ship to various types of small speed planes and autogyros.

One was a monster high-speed trimotored craft, The other was an autogyro, also of rather large size.