- tilt-wing aircraft
- An aircraft in which both hover flight and conventional forward flight are possible by tilting the wing through 90° while keeping the fuselage horizontal. See convertiplane and tilt rotor.
Aviation dictionary. 2014.
tilt-wing aircraft
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