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engine byp**** air, like the Harrier, the "LiftSystem" has a shaft-driven
LiftFan,
designed by
Lockheed Martin and
developed by Rolls-Royce, and a thrust...
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compressor stages are one-piece blisks. The
STOVL variant's shaft-driven
LiftFan is
connected to the low-pressure
spool and
engaged through a clutch. The...
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tested a
prototype lift fan for the
Joint Strike Fighter Program and a
LiftFan nozzle was
tested in 1997 at NASA's
Lewis facility. By 1997, a complete...
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concept aircraft could be
useful as a
conventional aircraft without the
LiftFan. When the US Navy also came on board, the road was
paved for the JSF concept...
- six times,
including in 2001 for
being part of
developing the X-35/F-35B
LiftFan Propulsion System and most
recently in 2018 for the
Automatic Ground Collision...
- variant.
STOVL operation is made
possible through a
patented shaft-driven
LiftFan propulsion system. This
would enable identical aerodynamic configuration...
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annular aerospike rotor) Ryan X-13
Vertijet (tailsitter) Ryan XV-5
Vertifan (
liftfans)
Short SC.1 (liftjet and
vectored thrust)
Sikorsky Cypher (ducted fan)...
- Systems,
Northrop Grumman and the
Joint Strike Fighter program Office for
LiftFan Propulsion System. 2002 -
Sikorsky Aircraft and the S-92 team, led by Nicholas...
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Piasecki PV-2 –
Helicopter technology demonstrator Piasecki VZ-8
Airgeep –
Liftfan VTOL
research Piasecki PA-97 1980 –
Heavy lifter Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech"...
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original on 2021-01-11.
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