Unidentified VTOL Designs

[hesham]

Hi,

here is some amazing VTOL designs of 1949,they include
a Herrich design,unknown French designer and aircraft
look like Platt-LePage PL-16 but biger.

http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=eSQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA2-PA41&dq=herrick+aircraft&hl=ar&ei=fqkgTJrHK9OfsQbxu9WnDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=herrick%20aircraft&f=true

 

[Tophe]

they include
a Herrich design,unknown French designer

Unknown, yes I confirm. No French aeronautic patent to this name, nor worldwide. ???

 

[Jemiba]

The text of the book speaks of "Herrick", so I think it's Gerard P. Herrick.
Just have a look here http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/herrick.php.
The type of the "french designer" looks like the one shown in AirTrails, August 1950, although I have
no other information about the designers name.

 

[Stargazer]

The way I understood it, they are all Herrick designs (as in Herrick Convertaplane), and the caption merely states that a French designer also studied a similar configuration.

 

[JC Carbonel]

I think Dorand has designed a Triebflugel-type in which the two-bladed rotor converts to wing (and I hope back to rotor)

JCC

 

[hesham]

Hi,


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/777091.pdf

 

[hesham]

Hi,


http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0042.shtml

 

[hesham]

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/777091.pdf

And this Helicrane looks like Blackburn/Hawker design;


http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4424.0.html

 

[jsport]

Hi,


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/777091.pdf

A 500 ton lifter is still the wildest. Takeoff & landing would be like an earthquake. Single flight diaster relief.

 

[VTOLicious]

Leonardo tilt-rotor UAS, designated AW002?

 

[jsport]

Hi,


http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/777091.pdf

Have always pondered the 500t craft as a height of human accomplishment and the coolest aircraft that could ever be built but it wouldnt be,

 

[hesham]

The text of the book speaks of "Herrick", so I think it's Gerard P. Herrick.
Just have a look here http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/herrick.php.
The type of the "french designer" looks like the one shown in AirTrails, August 1950, although I have
no other information about the designers name.

My dear Jemiba,

the designer may be "de Monge" as I explained before, and from Air Trail.