Jul 022009
At first I thought that this would be another one that should be fairly easy for someone to at least get in the general vicinity, but when I looked it up, I didn’t find what I thought I would… so this might be a tricky one. $35 worth of downloads from either APR or Drawings & Docs to whoever can *accurately* ID this vehicle. I’ll leave it up until Sunday or so, or until someone nails it.
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operational Hiller X-18 development?
Really? Only one guess? I’m shocked and apalled.
I have no idea, but I’ll pitch in my (weak) contribution. It looks like it has a twin boom layout since there is no empennage and the whole tailcone rotates (kinda like a Fairchild C-82 /C-119). There could be other explanations but that’s the most likely one.
Upon further examination, if the dashed line represents an airfoil cross section, then it looks like the aircraft has a VERY deep and long root chord. It could also be a tailless design.
It looks somewhat similar to a Burnelie lifting fuselage design, but the “front-end” section reminds me of the never-built Boeing Husky design.
Randy