an aircraft with rotors that can be switched from spinning horizontally, usually during takeoffs and landings, to spinning vertically, as during regular flight
: sometimes written ˈtiltˌrotor
Examples of 'tilt-rotor' in a sentence
tilt-rotor
This paper presents a novel negative-buoyancy autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with tri-tilt-rotor to obtain these two features.
Tao Wang, Chao Wu, Jianqin Wang, Tong Ge 2018, 'Modeling and Control of Negative-Buoyancy Tri-Tilt-Rotor Autonomous Underwater VehiclesBased on Immersion and Invariance Methodology', Applied Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/7/1150. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)