GYRONAUTICS

The core of Skyworks’ Gyroplane and Gyrodyne technology is Skyworks’ unparalleled understanding of sustained autorotative flight. Autorotation is the ability of a free-spinning rotor to generate lift.
 
For a Gyroplane in forward flight, as shown in the diagram to the right, the unpowered rotor creates lift through autorotation, with forward thrust provided by an engine-driven propeller(s) or by jet engine(s), much like an airplane. Larger and/or faster Skyworks Gyroplanes have airplane wings.