Usually means: Engine-off helicopter descent and landing.
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  1. autorotation: Merriam-Webster
  2. autorotation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autorotation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autorotation: Wordnik
  5. autorotation: Wiktionary
  6. autorotation: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. autorotation: Dictionary.com
  8. Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft), Autorotation (helicopter), Autorotation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. autorotation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. autorotation: Merriam-Webster

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  1. autorotation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autorotation)

▸ noun:  (aviation) The rotation of the blades of a helicopter driven solely by the action of ascending air

Similar:
cyclic, tail rotor, rotary wing, helicopter, gyrocopter, rotaplane, manual reversion, gyrodyne, multirotor, flapping hinge, more...

Opposite:
powered flight

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Similar:
cyclic, tail rotor, rotary wing, helicopter, gyrocopter, rotaplane, manual reversion, gyrodyne, multirotor, flapping hinge, more...

Opposite:
powered flight



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