Dec 112008
Before I left California in 2004, I stopped in the Hiller aerospace museum one last time and took a bunch of photos with my then-crappy digital camera. on display were a number of display models – including one full-scale mockup – of VTOL aircraft and helicopter concepts. Here are the VTOL concepts.
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next to Frence were also the US Aerospace study Ringwing VTOLS
the penultimate image, wat are those two “Dents” ?
part of engine or weapon pods ?
Several of the Luftwaffe concept aircraft showed up in the flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, which is a freaking bargain on Steam for ten bucks. I haven’t tried the VTOL bird yet, supposedly it is a royal pain to land.
Scott, was the silver ringwing concept suppose to have STOL or VTOL capability? It has some characteristics of a tailsitter…
I believe all of these were to be VTOL. The design shown in images 96 and 97 seems to have been a flat riser and used “vanes” to direct the flow downwards.
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