May 072016
 

An ad from a 1957 issue of Aviation Week extolling the wonders of the Ryan X-13 “Vertijet.” The thing worked, but not well enough to be turned into any sort of operational aircraft.

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It must’ve been nice to live in an era when entirely new types of aircraft would be sprung on the public with some regularity.

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