Gyrodyne

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

A gyrodyne is a type of VTOL heavier-than-air aircraft that uses a helicopter rotor system (either in unicopter, bicopter or multicopter forms) driven by its own engines only for takeoff, landing and hovering, and one or more conventional propellers or jet engines to provide thrust during forward flight.

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Image: Fairey Gyrodyne, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.