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Microlights come in all shapes and sizes, from weight-shift control craft like motorised hang gliders to more conventional stick-and-rudder aeroplanes. This gyrocopter looks like a helicopter, but it cannot hover. The rotor is not powered, but is in effect a moving wing, rotated by the slipstream of the propeller.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1999/2868/21
by Craig Simcox
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