Rockwell NR-356 Sea Control Ship (SCS) V/STOL fighter (XFV-12A)

I for one am glad it was tried in an actual X-vehicle - that's how you learn, and that's what X-vehicles are really all about.
 
My dear PaulMM,

after your permission,can we transfer this topic to Postwar section,it was only a prototype.
 
Rockwell was overambitious, they thought they had found the ultimate VTOL system. Plus subscale models worked, but internal losses in the ducts did not scaled in a linear fashion. What worked on models, no longer worked on the full scale plane.
 
Archibald said:
Rockwell was overambitious, they thought they had found the ultimate VTOL system. Plus subscale models worked, but internal losses in the ducts did not scaled in a linear fashion. What worked on models, no longer worked on the full scale plane.
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Didn't help that the full scale plane had very rough ducts internally...
 
From Naval Aviation 1973/9.
 

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