To add to the examples of the name is the 1950s Fairey Rotodyne[1], a hybrid aircraft-helicopter-gyrocopter with jet exhausts in the tips of the rotor blades.

There is a 1954 prototype[2] at the fabulous but small Museum of Berkshire Aviation near Reading, about 30 miles west of London.

[1] http://www.hmfriends.org.uk/faireyrotodyne.htm

[2] https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/html/exhibits/gyrody...