What are some VTOL Aircraft option we seem to have given up on. Like the X-22 with tilt duct fans
Tilt jet
Tail sitter
Jet powered tailsitter
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The us tried to field a flying saucer
My coworker calls this the "VTOL Wheel of Misfortune"
http://vertipedia.vtol.org/vstol/wheel.htm
They haven't given up on that OP it was exploring tilt rotor not exclusively ducts
>>915555
they looked into that with a UAV a few years ago
Check this out, Russians already copied the F-35!
Wait, they made YAK VTOLs in the 70's and 80's.
>>915561
Fun fact, if you look for the patent for the AvroCar, it was already known that it wouldn't fly.
Whenever someone designs a saucer, they think a lot on how to make it float, but they forget that flying means going to a direction at speed (ruining the floating capability).
>>916059
>flying means going to a direction at speed (ruining the floating capability)
huh?
>>915567
Another proud moment in "yeah, this should work" history
>>916059
What the fuck are you talking about? It looks like a GEV, people are still making shit like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5XWWXHVQk
>>916048
Those things were notorious for killing their pilots
>>915551
Meet the Bell XV-3
>>916069
>Those things were notorious for killing their pilots
It was the Soviet Union. Like they gave a shit.
>915561
urk... it flies!
cyclogyros
no one was able to build a working one until 2011
>>916146
forgot pic
the idea has been around for at least 90 years, yet inventors only just managed to build tiny remote-controlled models
Ah, the F-104 VTOL that could've been...
I've never found out why the Dornier-31 never went into production...looks legit, even used Harrier engines. With the later engines, it could've done away with those extra engine pods. With a fleet of these in the 70s, we may not have bothered building the Osprey. Maybe use 'em in Desert One...nevermind, no aircraft could save that disaster from happening.
>>916148
It doesn't look like a very practical design, just from a user-end standpoint
>>916187
Well, if Wikipedia's to be believed, it generated a ton of drag and was too heavy. It was probably complex as fuckall and a nightmare for maintainers, too.
>>916187
"NO decissions",, thesign.
>>916048
Lockheed actually worked with Yakovlev to develop the F-35B's lift fan and thrust vectoring system, which explains many of the commonalities.
>>915551
bvr
I love the look of this goofy thing, it looks like something out of one of those "THE FUTURE IS NOW" magazines from the 50s, and it's a direct ancestor to the V-22
