North American proposed a VTOL versoin of the good old T-2 Buckeye
(from Flying Review 1965)
robunos said:It's hard to tell from the 3-view, but does this have a tail-mounted fan for pitch control?
cheers,
Robin.
circle-5 said:NAA V/STOL Evaluation Vehicle factory model (T2-J Trainer with General Electric Lift Fan System). This Buckeye is considerably more modified than the preliminary design shown earlier in this thread: all-new, larger wing and horizontal stab, larger lift fans, new main landing gear, etc.
Ryan eventually incorporated this G.E. system into a very successful, purpose-built airframe, the XV-5A Vertifan.
Skyblazer said:To the best of my knowledge, the second image depicts a Ryan project, not an NAA one.
D-793........US Army Surveillance Aircraft Study (1960)
Jemiba said:Not sure, that adding the "V" to an aircraft, that alrteady has good STOL performance
is that profitable.
Jemiba said:Not sure, that adding the "V" to an aircraft, that already has good STOL performance
is that profitable.
lark said:I have the idea that the illustrations in post 17 & 18 are General Electric concepts
illustrating the many ways their fan in the wing technology could be used...
lark said:In my humble opinion Hesham , # 15 and # 17 are -not- the same aircraft.
( the wingplanform , air intakes and the undercariage are different)
The last illustration you show is indeed a Ryan Vertifan idea , one of the many...
lark said:I'm not convinced.
Besides , in the captions with the artist impressions in the mag.article there are
no manufacturers names nor designations exept General Electric.
Otherwise the photo's give more info...
hesham said:here is a Rockwell twin-boom aircraft project,but I don't know if it was STOL or
VTOL concept or not