Apr 252011
Another rendering of the Bell “SeaKat” VTOL anti-sub plane. Read more about it here.
Image from the archive of the Ira G. Ross/Niagara Aerospace Museum.
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Another rendering of the Bell “SeaKat” VTOL anti-sub plane. Read more about it here.
Image from the archive of the Ira G. Ross/Niagara Aerospace Museum.
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Still looks like some sort of odd T-37 offshoot.
Since the thing is obviously going to have a better than 1-1 thrust to weight ratio, why do they have it so slow looking? If you throttle the engines back that far what happens to their fuel efficiency?
The Yak-36 VTOL prototype using the same VTOL concept looks more like you’d expect from such a design in regards to speed and layout:
http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/yak-36.php
It only had greater than 1 T/W when in VTOL flight. The VTOL lift jets were not useful for forward flight, only the single lift/cruise engine.
Where’s the third engine? The tail looks like it has a radome on it with a retracted MAD boom above it.
I take it the big hatch just aft of the cockpit covers a life raft?