- 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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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...
- robustness, and to
avoid the need for a
retraction mechanism.
Experimental tailsitter aircraft use
landing gear
located in
their tails for VTOL operation. For...
- The
Cormorant was a
tailsitter project under development at
Lockheed Martin's
Skunk Works research facility until 2008 when its
contract for development...
- XFV (sometimes
referred to as the "Salmon") is an
American experimental tailsitter prototype aircraft built by
Lockheed in the
early 1950s to demonstrate...
- capability,
especially the
quadcopter type. In 1947, the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, a
tailsitter design, was
ordered by the US Navy, who then
further issued a proposal...
- on
September 13 at the 10th AIAA ATIO Conference, NASA
Puffin Electric Tailsitter VTOL
Concept and
Puffin Redundant Electric Powertrain System. This was...
- ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0. Zichek, J., 2015.
Northrop N-63
Convoy Fighter: The
Naval VTOL
Turboprop Tailsitter Project of 1950.
Retromechanix Productions....
- (Russian: Сухой Шквал, lit. 'Dry Squall') was a
Soviet project for a
tailsitter-type
interceptor aircraft. In 1960, a
young engineer named Rolan Martirossov...
