USAF SOR-187: VTOL search and rescue aircraft

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Mentioned in Flying Review Sept 1961

SOR-187

Small search-retrieval aircraft with VTOL to be carried pick-a-back by a C-130 Hercules. Aircraft carried to combat zone by the Hercules and launched in the air to carry supplies to forward combat sites, returning to the parent transport with casualties.

 

[Orionblamblam]

I posted art of this a while back. On a Bell ducted fan thread, somewhere...

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

I posted art of this a while back. On a Bell ducted fan thread, somewhere...

Do you have illustrations pertaining to the SOR-187 that I could glance at a bit?

 

[hesham]

I think it was Bell D-190 or on of its variants.

Bell D190B rescue VTOL – Aerospace Projects Review Blog

 

[Vahe Demirjian]

I think it was Bell D-190 or on of its variants.

Bell D190B rescue VTOL – Aerospace Projects Review Blog

The Bell D-190 is discussed at the following thread:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/bell-d190-tilt-duct-vtol.15543/

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Air Force SOR-187 development plan (July 10, p. 19) calls for a VTOL aircraft with maximum ferry range of l,200 mi. It would be carried piggyback by a C-130-class aircraft to a battlefield area where it would be launched to carry supplies to a combat site. then return to its mother aircraft. It could also ferry supply pods between mother aircraft and combat sites. Development period for the VTOL aircraft would be 5 yr.

Aviation Week 17 July 1961