V/STOL Aircraft Summary: McDonnell's famous "wheel"

[Stargazer]

In the mid-1960s, McDonnell Aircraft Company conducted a wide survey of all existing VTOL and VSTOL design configurations. A a means to easily summarize their research into a diagram that would be at once synthetic, compact and logical, they produced this now famous illustration shaped like a wheel, which shows the various families of vehicles and provides an example for each particular configuration.

Source of this particular version: http://history.nasa.gov/monograph17.pdf

 

[Nik]

There's an updated version at http://www.vstol.org/


It has links to summaries of each design featured.

 

[Grey Havoc]

There's an updated version at http://www.vstol.org/


It has links to summaries of each design featured.

Quite handy, thanks.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Mark Nankivil found this version....

 

[yasotay]

Aw yest the infamous "VSTOL wheel of shame"