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RR work on pure-liftjets derived from 1946-work by Chief Scientist, ex-RAE Dr.A.A.Griffith. His first device to run was RB82 Soar for (not yet RPV) Vickers Special Products T.895 Red Rapier, which was refined into RB108, 5 of them levitating Short S.C.1. The newly-constituted W.German aero-industry was funded by FRG and by US Mutual Weapons Development Program to explore combat V/STOL. MoS funded ever-lighter lift, as RB162. RR/MTU/Allison in Oct.,65 began XJ99:4 were to lift EWR-Süd/Boeing (becoming Fairchild-Hiller/Republic)AVS, MWDP part-funded until Luftwaffe despaired of the practical inoperability of such a thing. AVS died Spring,1968 (and MRCA was conceived in a menage of 6), but MoA funding for XJ99 endured to 1971 (my memory is as composite materials proof-of-concept vehicle).

[QUOTE="alertken, post: 127151, member: 393"] RR work on pure-liftjets derived from 1946-work by Chief Scientist, ex-RAE [i]Dr.A.A.Griffith[/i]. His first device to run was RB82 Soar for (not yet RPV) Vickers Special Products T.895 [i]Red Rapier[/i], which was refined into RB108, 5 of them levitating Short S.C.1. The newly-constituted W.German aero-industry was funded by FRG and by US Mutual Weapons Development Program to explore combat V/STOL. MoS funded ever-lighter lift, as RB162. RR/MTU/Allison in Oct.,65 began XJ99:4 were to lift EWR-Süd/Boeing (becoming Fairchild-Hiller/Republic)[i]AVS[/i], [i]MWDP[/i] part-funded until [i]Luftwaffe[/i] despaired of the practical inoperability of such a thing. [i]AVS[/i] died Spring,1968 (and [i]MRCA[/i] was conceived in a menage of 6), but MoA funding for XJ99 endured to 1971 (my memory is as composite materials proof-of-concept vehicle). [/QUOTE]

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