Langley VTOL fighter of 1971

[hesham]

Hi,

a six-jet VTOL aircraft with four swing-out lift jets.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720010358_1972010358.pdf

 

[starviking]

Overscan has got similar pics halfway down this page on the US-German AVS VTOL-VG project:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,452.0

 

[hesham]

Oh sorry for this double post.

 

[starviking]

Oh sorry for this double post.

Well, your two model pics have the captions intact - so not totally a 'double post'.

 

[Hasnnan]

Hi,

a six-jet VTOL aircraft with four swing-out lift jets.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720010358_1972010358.pdf

The link is dead now can post the title of the report

 

[Hicks]

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19720010358:
Effects of ground proximity on the aerodynamic characteristics of a six-jet V/STOL configuration with four swing-out lift jets​

From archive.org :
https://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19720010358
https://web.archive.org/web/2010051...casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720010358_1972010358.pdf

From new NTRS site :
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720010358/downloads/19720010358.pdf?attachment=true