Thank You for coming here! My name is Jakub Fojtík and Rotornik.webnode.cz is my personal website dedicated originally to the helicopter books I wrote, but now also covering fixed wing aircraft books as well. I am a freelance aviation journalist from the Czech Republic. Up to now I published over 30 books and 700+ magazine articles, all about aviation. Writing was never my job, it is just a passion and self-education activity. Should you have any interesting materials for publishing or research, I am happy to talk to you. 

Maybe we should start with the name of the website. "Rotornik" is an unusual Czech word (I wish I had invented it, but did not...), which means "a helicopter" and according to my opinion is much more matching with helicopter itself. In the Czech language we use more common and frequent word "vrtulnik" , but it is derived from the word base "vrtule" (propeller). And here it is - can you find any propeller generating pure propulsion force on a helicopter? I think you cannot... So I have decided to start changing this ugly custom and I am fighting for renaming the helicopter after more than one hundred years we use this word:) Another reason for using this unusual name of the website is it sounds well not only in Czech, but also in English - "rotornick".

Thank You for coming here! My name is Jakub Fojtík and Rotornik.webnode.cz is my personal website dedicated originally to the helicopter books I wrote, but now also covering fixed wing aircraft books as well. I am a freelance aviation journalist from the Czech Republic. Up to now I published over 30 books and 700+ magazine articles, all about aviation. Writing was never my job, it is just a passion and self-education activity. Should you have any interesting materials for publishing or research, I am happy to talk to you. 

 

Maybe we should start with the name of the website. "Rotornik" is an unusual Czech word (I wish I had invented it, but did not...), which means "a helicopter" and according to my opinion is much more matching with helicopter itself. In the Czech language we use more common and frequent word "vrtulnik" , but it is derived from the word base "vrtule" (propeller). And here it is - can you find any propeller generating pure propulsion force on a helicopter? I think you cannot... So I have decided to start changing this ugly custom and I am fighting for renaming the helicopter after more than one hundred years we use this word:) Another reason for using this unusual name of the website is it sounds well not only in Czech, but also in English - "rotornick".