v/stol aircraft

In another thread I mentioned that my group at McDonnell Douglas had come up with a supersonic STOVL fighter/attack airplane that we called Harrier 21. It was supposed to be one of a series of potential AV-8B follow-ons. There was Harrier III Low End, a modest modification of the basic AV-8B...

Years ago, when NASA started sharing its archives online, I spent a lot of time indexing the photos of the various models tested in wind tunnels. I only saved a few of them, thinking that the images were online to stay... only to discover later on that none of the links I had saved to the...

Hello to you all, i am a new member to this forum & i like a lot of what i see & read here & fulmars !(Feeble naval pun/typo intended!) full marks to you all, however, its only fair that i chip in as well. So here goes it. If you cast your mind back to the air shows of the late 70s & early...

Back in the late 1980s or early 1990s (my hard drive failed a couple of months ago and I haven't been able to reconstruct all of my records) I was working in the general area of AV-8B, and specifically its vulnerability to combat damage. The USMC came to us and asked what would be the smallest...

Jane's Avionics 1987-1988

Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, The company was formed by the 1964 merger of two German aerospace firms, Focke-Wulf and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug). The formation of VFW was a natural outcome, as the two companies had been collaborating, along with Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB), in the...

Taken from Structural Design Considerations for Cold Thrust Augmentation Fighter Concepts.

The British B.A.E. Kingston P1214-3 Xwing Fighter Interceptor is the only aircraftdesign that was really an X-Wing version. It was designed by Hawker Design Team at Kingston in the late 70's for RAF as Advanced-Short-Tak-Off / Vertical Landing Fighter.. The aircraft had 3 adjustable thrusters...

Hi, I spoke about this competition before,in Ryan XV-5's topic,and I prefer to open new topic for it,the main tenders were, - North American CL-4035 (T2J-1 VTOL) - Ryan/GE Model-? ,sure was in - Douglas D-793 - Grumman G-260 ,sure was in,it had a fan lift in center inboard section of the wing...

For this contest, the Hughes H-485,Bell T-37 and Lockheed,but no other contenders are known. American Aviation 1966.

Hi, the Piasecki PA-2C was designed to be vertical takeoff aircraft capable of sustained high speed level flight. http://www.piasecki.com/pa-2c.htm

Thanks to the ever-vigilant Mark Nankivil, we have a number of McDonnell-Douglas Advanced Design sketches to identify. I think I can figure out a few, but I thought it might be fun to let everyone have a go at this game. I'll post one design per post, so we can move them to the correct topics...

Is anyone aware of any projects by China to create a VTOL aircraft to operate off of their helicopter carriers?

The Harrier has become such a crucial part of the Royal Navy and Royal Navy history that I dont think we have yet risked a thread about a world in which it never entered service. Like all early VSTOL designs the P1127 was not easy to fly..It only existed at all because of US funding and...

We have a whole bunch of threads, alt-history or not. But no full blown TL so far. The POD: May 1972, common sense prevails: Convair Model 200 carries the day over Rockwell NAR-356. It becomes the XFV-12 interceptor for Zumwalt Sea Control Ship. Even after that one is canned, two prototypes are...

I was dumbstruck to notice on Amazon a forthcoming book in Osprey Publishing's X-Planes series about the McDonnell XP-67 experimental bomber-destroyer, so I'm thinking the following potential books should be published in the X-Planes series by Osprey Publishing: America's Tilt-Duct X-Planes...

Germany was experimenting with various VTOL aircraft during the cold war in the end they didn't go for any of them. in this alternate scenario.. what if Germany did order some into production? 1. Which design would be the most likely to lead to operation? they had the VAK 191, DO 31 (this...

Son of CV-22B Osprey: Air Force Research Lab signs Research contract with Bel for high speed VTOL study https://www.flightglobal.com/helicopters/us-air-force-signs-research-contract-for-bells-high-speed-vtol/143611.article

As said in the tin. When you think about it, it would avoid an immense amount of suffering and money waste. Kind of - screw the Tigers - screw CVA-01 - screw Spey Phantoms do we agree all three above were expensive boondoggles ? so good riddance (sorry, that's the radical in me... !) Also...

A variety of threads cover the attempts by the USN to develop an airgroup suitable for its Sea Control Ships (SCS). The ships themselves have been well covered and individual VSTOL programmes have their own individual threads. What I want to do is compare what actually happened with what might...