vtol

Hello again everyone. The Shed City Metroport (heavily based on this:) ...is nearing completion. Have some screenshots of progress.

Hello Andruil has filed a patent for a never-before-seen VTOL UAS. It appears they've also filed for a fuel system related to this UAS. Does anyone have any information on this? US-12296968-B2　Assembly for dual engine vertical take off and landing collapsible fixed wing aircraft　 Pdf date

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11072423B1/en

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 folks, this photograph featuring the "Rohr Heli-Skimmer" was uploaded to the SDASM Flickr Archives on May 21, 2025. :cool: It appears to be a STOL (or even VTOL) amphibious aircraft. Thus far, have been unable to locate any more details regarding this project. :confused: Source: View...

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...

Guten Tag! I really like the VJ-101C, it is like a German version of VTOL capable F-104G Starfighter clone without T-tail. It seems to be promising with a lot of potential. What will happen if it became a real operational military grade VTOL fighter jet instead of a short lived experimental...

Found these in the Spanish online patent repository in the aircraft related patent clasif. it was hard for me at first to understand the design as i havent seen much aircraft like this before but it has retractable blades on the side of the plane that spins like a helicopter to make vertical...

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...

I left my heart in the Mojave.

Many years ago I found drawings in a book about unbuilt airliners of the HS140. At the time I had a small model of the plane made in the same RAF colours as the Beagle Basset.. I will try and find it. I was wondering whether anyone knows more about the HS140 and whether it was ever looked at by...

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...

Hi there, during my 20 year long research on secret Luftwaffe developments 1944/45 in several archives around the world, I never came across the following VTOL development sketches by von Ohain: It is describing a plane by the company of Heinkel-Hirth-Motoren GmbH, Dr. von Ohain, in 1944...

i have been looking at a lot of old US vtol project that had promises but it got cancelled and it got me thinking. what would happend if some of those projets succeed, and what would happenend if thay did .

What if some one developed a strap-on VTOL kit for airplanes. This question was s motivated by the recurring rumours of VTOL replacements for all the C-130 military transports currently in service. VTOL is so heavy and expensive that it detracts from range. You do not a thrust-to-weight ratio...

This month Dan Sharp is releasing his latest bookazine in his "Luftwaffe Secret Projects" series. I created the cover for it, featuring what must be the craziest airplane I ever made in 3D - and I've made some weird things the past 25 years! It's the Heinkel Lerche III VTOL nightfighter. This...

I represent you Republic AP-100 3D model made in blender and texture in substance painter do you think 6 engine thrust vectoring are practical ? :p the wing is only for roll

Anybody know what this is? It's on display at a little museum near me, and they say they purchased it from a museum near Austin, Texas. It's got to be a figment of someones imagination, maybe for movie use? http://www.russellmilitarymuseum.com/hind.html thanks

"Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as a flying test-bed to evaluate...