Why aren’t there airplane sized helicopters? Helicopters seem better in terms of no long runway needed, and the ease of moving in any direction.

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Why aren’t there airplane sized helicopters? Helicopters seem better in terms of no long runway needed, and the ease of moving in any direction.

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It’s because it would require too much fuel to keep it up and going, the propeller would be gigantic and it wouldn’t have the same efficiency, airplanes require less fuel than the helicopters of the same size because they focus all their vroom vroom power to push it in front, while an helicopter has to push his vroom vroom both upwords and forward, requiring a lot more fuel

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