also: チルトローター
noun
tilt-rotor aircraft
Refers to an aircraft, typically a helicopter-like vehicle, that uses tiltable rotors for vertical takeoff and landing as well as forward flight.
ティルトローター機はヘリコプターのように垂直に離着陸できる。
A tilt-rotor aircraft can take off and land vertically like a helicopter.
A conventional helicopter with fixed rotors; a tilt-rotor can tilt its rotors to fly like a fixed-wing aircraft.
Borrowed from English 'tilt-rotor', referring to the tilting rotor mechanism.