Origins Quiz — Sunday, August 23, 2026

What rotor-driven aircraft gets its English name by combining Greek roots meaning "spiral" or "screw" and "wing," coined by French inventor Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt for his experimental 1861 rotary-wing model?

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