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convertible aircraft
- Definição1
- An aircraft which takes off, hovers, and lands as a helicopter, but is converted into a fixed-wing aircraft (aeroplane) at higher foward flight speeds, the rotor or rotors being either used as a propeller or stopped, the latter condition arising when it serves as a fixed wing or is retracted into the airframe.
- Fonte1
- MULTILINGUAL aeronautical dictionary, or, dictionary aeronautique multilingue: english, french, spanish, dutch, greek, italian,portuguese, turkish. London, England: Technical Editing and reproduction Ltd, 1980. xx, 876 p. ISBN 92835016667.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Air freight Europe-Mediterranean region. Montreal, 1970. (Cir. 97 AT/18).
- Contexto
- Out of this fleet about 275 were cargo aircraft or aircraft conv ertible between passenger and cargo configurations while about 1,400 were passenger aircraft.
- Subárea
- Aircraft
- Spanish
- avión convertible