vtol

Iran unveils new weird flying machine: a tilt-wing vertical takeoff and landing “ultra-advanced” drone November 8, 2012 Source: http://theaviationist.com/2012/11/08/koker/

One of the joys of this site is the quantity of info available on unbuilt aircraft projects. Particularly tantalising are the various projects in the 70s and 80s for a supersonic VSTOL to replace the Harrier. The Bae 1216 has been the best covered thanks to Michael Pryce. Various US designs...

The F4 Phantom might have failed to materialise as the wonderful plane which the RAF and RN used to fill various gaps from the 60s onwards. In a Phantomless world would P1154 have been developed as planned in 1963 for both RAF and RN or would the Lightning have been developed in its swing wing...

i found this You tube video on 1960s prediction on 1970s weapon system sadly it's show only a fragment of original film View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FydcxZt4Xdk&feature=player_embedded

The next PTP I am writing, on Harrier Projects, is about 50% written. It will feature some things already known about, but tell their full story, such as: as well as revealing wholly new stories, such as the full saga of the Harrier III, the proposed Sea Harrier FRS.3 and some weird and...

Greetings All - Interesting and unusual artwork: http://www.ebay.com/itm/FLETCH-AIRE-FA-1-MOHAWK-AIRCRAFT-CONCEPT-DRAWING-FREE-U-S-SHIPPING-/260944546416?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc181ca70 Enjoy the Day! Mark

Looking quite notional, but it's the only picture I've seen so far of the Aerophysics contender for the flying jeep: (from Aviation Week August 1957)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) 22DDH helicopter destroyer. Source: http://snafu-solomon.blogspot.com/2010/06/22ddh-japans-next-helicopter-carrier.html http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/6-62389.aspx http://oursogo.com/thread-1155047-1-1.html

This YouTube video has some really good footage of Harriers, plus some other aircraft (Sea Vixens - yay!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjRdNwcWsZE I especially like the Sea Harrier in nuclear strike configuration (WE177 and tank) preparing to launch at 20:37 and the 'Captain Pugwash'...

Hughes Jet Pack Pogo Stick concept artwork found on eBay. [link no longer active]

Random thought.... Have there been any designs for jet VTOL tailsitters, on paper or actually built, with the engine reversed in the airframe and the efflux turned 180 degrees or so to exit from the nose? It's not hard to imagine such a design with a pair of Harrier-style rotating louvers for...

http://gizmodo.com/5524604/real-goddamn-flying-nazi-soldiers-with-jet-packs ??? Hurm.

Rockwell NA 430 VSTOL Multi Mission Aircraft Design definition study of NASA/Navy lift/cruise fan V/STOL aircraft. Volume 1: Summary report of Navy multimission aircraft Cavage, R. L. (Rockwell International) NASA-CR-137695 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005982

Today it is 50 years since the first Hawker P.1127 hovered, on 21st of October 1960. Despite the recent news that the UK is retiring its fleet the US Marine Corps, Spanish Navy, Italian Navy and Indian Navy continue to operate it, and it is likely that the Harrier will still be in service for...

Hi, we know only for this Russian company; Rafaelyants or simply RAF,that RAF-1 was ultra-light low-wing monoplane of 1925, RAF-2 was two-seat cantilever low-wing monoplane of 1926 and the RAF-11 was twin-engined low-wing small tarnsport aircraft of 1935,nobody knows the RAF-3 to RAF-10 ,and if...

Does anybody happen to know what became of the Bell "Eagle Eye" tilt rotor UAV? The USCG has put the program on hold...any other customers (I´ve heard that the USMC was interested in this design at some time). Or has the whole project been cancelled? Anybody who´s got the empty and gross weight...

Hi, I displayed this aircraft before,but I can't identify it,who can ?. Low speed aerodynamic characteristics of a vectored thrust V/STOL transport with two lift/cruise fans Renselaer, D. J NASA-CR-152029 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19770022151 [Admin - updated link and added report details]

Than the "Weser-Flugzeugbau GmbH" was active also after wwii ! :o :o

From Journal Of The Royal Aeornautical Society August 1965. Not sure if this is a proper project or not as it says no more than the title in an article about VTOL. Regards, Barry

Hi, the Aviation Week magazine published this Boeing VTOL transport aircraft project and the Flightglobal magazine displayed it. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1973/1973%20-%202151.html