- A tail-sitter, or
tailsitter, is a type of VTOL
aircraft that
takes off and
lands on its tail, then
tilts horizontally for
forward flight. Originating...
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AeroVironment SkyTote (
tailsitter)
AgustaWestland AW609 (tiltrotor)
Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 (ducted fan)...
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vehicles Fokker F.V, a 1922
Dutch aircraft Lockheed XFV, an
experimental "
tailsitter"
aircraft ****ure value, in
finance Factor V, a
protein of the coagulation...
- XFV (sometimes
referred to as the "Salmon") is an
American experimental tailsitter prototype aircraft built by
Lockheed in the
early 1950s to demonstrate...
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bombing raids on
central Germany. It was a
vertical take-off and
landing tailsitter interceptor design for
local defense of
important factories or
areas which...
- capability,
especially the
quadcopter type. In 1947, Ryan X-13 Vertijet, a
tailsitter design, was
ordered by the US Navy, who then
further issued a proposal...
- The
Cormorant was a
tailsitter project under development at
Lockheed Martin's
Skunk Works research facility until 2008 when its
contract for development...
- Focke-Wulf "Triebflügel" (Powered Wings) – a
planned tip jet rotorcraft,
tailsitter interceptor Focke-Wulf Ta 183 "Huckebein" – a
planned swept wing turbojet...
- ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0. Zichek, J., 2015.
Northrop N-63
Convoy Fighter: The
Naval VTOL
Turboprop Tailsitter Project of 1950.
Retromechanix Productions....
- robustness, and to
avoid the need for a
retraction mechanism.
Experimental tailsitter aircraft use
landing gear
located in
their tails for VTOL operation. For...
