The VTOL Encyclopedia articles

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Some of you may recall the first few of these were available from www.vstol.org.

Unfortunately, later ones are not freely available, which is a shame because they are excellent. This is the latest list, I can vouch for the first 15 as being well worth a read.

1. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and A. Piccirillo,
“German V/STOL Fighter Programs In The Twentieth Century,”
International Powered Lift Conference, AHS, October November 2000.

2. Hirschberg, M. and T. Müller,
“German V/STOL Rotorcraft and Propellercraft In The Twentieth Century,”
AHS Forum 57, May 2001.

3. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and H. Niedzballa,
“German V/STOL Transport Programs In The Twentieth Century,”
SAE World Aviation Congress, September 2001.

4. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and A. Rocher,
“French Low-Speed V/STOL Concepts Of The Twentieth Century,”
AHS Forum 58, June 2002.

5. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and A. Rocher,
“French High-Speed V/STOL Concepts Of The Twentieth Century,”
AIAA International Powered Lift Conference, November 2002.

6. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and Erasmo Piñero,
“Italian V/STOL Concepts Of The Twentieth Century,”
AHS Forum 59, May 2003.

7. Pryce, M. and M. Hirschberg,
“Beyond the Harrier: V/STOL Concepts at Hawker Kingston,”
SAE World Aviation Congress, Sep 2003.

8. Pryce, M. and M. Hirschberg,
“Without the Harrier: Non-Kingston Fighter/Attack V/STOL Concepts in the UK,”
AHS Forum 60, June 2004.

9. Pryce, M., M. Hirschberg, and C. Farara,
“Improving the Harrier: Projected Developments of the Pioneering V/STOL Combat Aircraft 1957-1990,”
SAE World Aviation Congress, October 2005.

10. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and M. Pryce,
“British V/STOL Rotorcraft Concepts in the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 61, June 2005.

11. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and D. Morozov,
“Soviet V/STOL Jet Fighter/Attack Concepts of the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 62, May 2006.

12. Hirschberg, M. and T. Müller,
“Soviet Jet V/STOL Bomber and Transport Concepts of the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 63, May 2007.

13. Hirschberg, M. and T. Müller,
“Soviet Propeller V/STOL Concepts of the 20th Century,”
SAE AeroTech, October 2007.

14. Pryce, M., and M. Hirschberg,
“United Kingdom V/STOL Transport Aircraft of the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 64, April 2008.

15. Hirschberg, M., T. Müller and Grigoriy Omelchenko,
“Soviet V/STOL Rotorcraft Concepts of the 20th Century,”
RAeS/AHS/AIAA/SAE International Powered Lift Conference, July 2008.

16. Priestley, Stephen, M. Hirschberg and T. Müller,
“Canadian Low Disk-Loading V/STOL Concepts of the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 65, May 2009.

17. Priestley, Stephen, M. Hirschberg, A. Collins, and T. Müller,
“Canadian High Disk-Loading V/STOL Concepts of the 20th Century,”
AHS 2nd International Specialists’ Meeting on Vertical Lift Aircraft Research Development, Test and Evaluation, August 2009.

 

[Antonio]

Unfortunately, later ones are not freely available

where can we buy it?

 

[boxkite]

Hmm ... The idea behind this series of papers on VSTOL concepts was to publish them as a book someday, but most of them (especially the early papers) need an update. For instance vstol, Jemiba and I were in Friedrichshafen/Immenstaad to visit the Dornier archive a few years ago. It was not allowed to check the files by ourselves, instead the woman from the archive has pre-selected material for us. That's why we can't promise had to find ALL Dornier VSTOL projects (see a few of the possibly layouts attached). We are still looking for a satisfying way to present the material.

In the meantime further papers have been written:

18. Hirschberg, M., Matej Furda, and T. Müller,
“Czechoslovakian, Polish and Yugoslavian V/STOL Concepts of the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 66, May 2010.

19. Hirschberg, M., and T. Müller,
“A Miscellany of Western European V/STOL Concepts of the 20th Century,”
International Powered Lift Conference, AHS, October 2010.

20. Hirschberg, M., Michael Pryce, and T. Müller
“Jet V/STOL Propulsion Systems of the 20th Century,”
AHS Forum 67, May 2011.

As you can see several SPF members supported the job by various means - thank you so much again for all your help and efforts .

vstol, it's time to find a way for a portal ...

 

[SteveO]

Unfortunately, later ones are not freely available

where can we buy it?

Ditto! I remember checking that website obsessively for the release of those articles.