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Convertiplane
Jumat, 2026-01-30 18:43:45

A convertiplane is defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI or World Air Sports Federation) as an aircraft which uses rotor power for...

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McDonnell XV-1
Minggu, 2025-06-29 04:24:35

The McDonnell XV-1 is an experimental Convertiplane developed by McDonnell Aircraft for a joint research program between the United States Air Force and...

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Dobson Convertiplane
Senin, 2026-02-02 12:22:14

The Dobson Convertiplane a was tiltrotor VTOL convertiplane, designed and built by Franklin A. Dobson in the 1950s. Dobson, an aeronautical engineer employed...

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Hiller X-18
Minggu, 2026-04-05 13:10:47

The Hiller X-18 was an experimental cargo transport aircraft designed to be the first testbed for tiltwing and V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing)...

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Powered lift
Kamis, 2025-07-17 22:18:53

United States Marines, use a tiltrotor or tiltwing. These are called a convertiplane. Others like the British Harrier jump jet use thrust vectoring or other...

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Rotorcraft
Kamis, 2025-09-25 22:22:23

solely fixed-wing lift in horizontal flight is not a rotorcraft but a convertiplane. A helicopter is a powered rotorcraft with rotors driven by the engine(s)...

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Richard Pearse
Kamis, 2026-05-14 09:56:36

"private plane for the million", a foldable single-engined tiltrotor convertiplane. Richard William Pearse, born at Waitohi Flat, South Canterbury, New...

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Lifting-wing multicopter
Jumat, 2025-10-24 14:42:11

vertical takeoff and landing aircraft such as tail-sitter aircraft and convertiplane. At present, almost all aircraft are in multicopter mode or fixed-wing...

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Fairey Rotodyne
Minggu, 2026-04-26 18:24:53

flight. On 5 January 1959, the Rotodyne set a world speed record in the convertiplane category, at 190.9 mph (307.2 km/h), over a 60-mile (97 km) closed circuit...

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Sikorsky Aircraft
Jumat, 2026-04-03 17:35:44

boat (for Pan Am), never built (1938) Sikorsky S-57/XV-2: Supersonic convertiplane with single blade retractable rotor. Never built. Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66...

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Kellett Autogiro Corporation
Rabu, 2023-03-22 12:19:51

some rotor features and its last design the K-25 was an experimental convertiplane using tilt-rotors. Smith, Frank (1981). Legacy of Wings; The Harold...

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List of rotorcraft
Jumat, 2026-04-17 23:45:02

list of rotorcraft, including helicopters, autogyros, rotor kites and convertiplanes. A-B Helicopters A/W 95 Adney Helicopter Aero HC-2 Heli Baby Aero-Astra...

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List of airliners by maximum takeoff weight
Kamis, 2025-11-13 06:40:20

This is a list of aircraft sorted by maximum takeoff weight. MTOW = Maximum take-off weight, MLW = Maximum landing weight, TOR = Take-off run (SL, ISA+15°...

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Quadcopter
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:43:27

multicopter that has four rotors. Although quadrotor helicopters and convertiplanes have long been flown experimentally, the configuration remained a curiosity...

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V/STOL
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:47:59

XV-15 Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey (scale up of XV-15) Bell MV-75 Dobson Convertiplane Curtiss-Wright X-19 – four rotating propellers, tilt-wing. Canadair...

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Helicopter
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:37:21

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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Bell XV-3
Minggu, 2025-08-10 11:23:12

United States Air Force and the United States Army in order to explore convertiplane technologies. The XV-3 featured an engine mounted in the fuselage with...

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Doak VZ-4
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 22:49:55

Doak VZ-4 General information Type VTOL research convertiplane Manufacturer Doak Aircraft Company Status preserved at Fort Eustis VA Primary user United...

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Transcendental Model 1-G
Kamis, 2026-04-30 01:08:55

Norton, Bill (January–February 2005). "Tilt-Rotor Patriarch: Bell's XV-3 Convertiplane". Air Enthusiast. No. 115. pp. 44–64. Transcendental Model 1G. vstol...

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Autogyro
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:38:09

– 29, 1938: Facts and Myths Surrounding the Foundations of Autogiro/Convertiplane/Helicopter Development in America and Europe (PDF). American Helicopter...

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Sikorsky XV-2
Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:15:49

was a planned experimental stoppable rotor aircraft, designated as a convertiplane, developed for a joint research program between the United States Air...

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List of VTOL aircraft
Jumat, 2026-02-06 11:47:24

(separate lift and thrust engines) Doak 16/VZ-4DA (ducted fans) Dobson Convertiplane (tiltrotor) Dornier Do 31 (thrust vectoring and lift jets) DuPont Aerospace...

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Tip jet
Senin, 2025-08-25 12:36:48

gyroplane, during the early 1950s. This rotorcraft was classified as a convertiplane; the propulsion system was powered by a single Continental-built R-975...

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Aircraft
Jumat, 2026-06-05 02:07:59

solely fixed-wing lift in horizontal flight is not a rotorcraft but a convertiplane. A lifting body is an aircraft that produces lift through the shape...

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SNCASO Farfadet
Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:16:41

The SNCASO SO.1310 Farfadet was an experimental French convertiplane of the 1950s. The SO.1310 was a compound gyroplane featuring a tip-jet driven, three-bladed...

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Mil V-12
Rabu, 2026-05-13 05:36:53

Focke-Wulf Fw 61, Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache and Kamov Ka-22 Vintokryl convertiplane. Construction of the V-12 first prototype, after exhaustive testing...

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Leonardo AW609
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:40:54

solid-state weather radar European Future Advanced Rotorcraft (EuroFAR) Convertiplane Related development Bell XV-3 Bell XV-15 Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Bell...

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Gyrodyne Company of America
Jumat, 2026-05-29 00:19:24

Gyrodyne GCA-2 Gyrodyne GCA-3 Convertiplane Gyrodyne GCA-35 Gyroliner Gyrodyne GCA-24 Gyrodyne GCA-32 Military Convertiplane Gyrodyne GCA-55 Today Gyrodyne...

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Bell XV-15
Minggu, 2026-04-05 13:07:22

development Bell XV-3 – Experimental tiltrotor aircraft to explore convertiplane technologies Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey – Military transport tiltrotor...

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Canadair CL-84 Dynavert
Kamis, 2026-04-23 13:30:44

configuration, and era Bell XV-3 – Experimental tiltrotor aircraft to explore convertiplane technologies Bell XV-15 – American experimental tiltrotor aircraft Curtiss-Wright...

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CTA Convertiplano
Minggu, 2025-11-09 07:20:45

The Convertiplano is a cancelled Brazilian convertiplane project. It is based on the earlier Focke-Achgelis Fa 269. Henrich Focke revived the design in...

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Post-war aviation
Minggu, 2026-05-10 09:18:07

powered the main rotor for vertical flight. None entered production. The convertiplane has a conventional wing for lift in forward flight and a rotary wing...

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Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:42:46

Hybrid convertiplane "Irbis-538" during the "Armiya 2021" exhibition...

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Herrick HV-2A Vertaplane
Kamis, 2025-10-30 05:08:10

HV-2 Vertaplane (Herrick Vertoplane-2) was one of the world's first convertiplanes and was designed by Gerard P. Herrick, a pioneer in the field of VTOL...

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Bell Aircraft
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 08:59:54

0 Unbuilt eight jet engine VTOL fighter Bell Model 50 N/A 0 Unbuilt convertiplane Bell Model 49 1 Experimental single piston engine helicopter Bell Rocket...

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Kaman Corporation
Selasa, 2026-02-03 09:01:57

production begins. January 1964 First flight of Kaman's experimental Convertiplane equipped with a GE J-85 turbojet engine and wings from a Beechcraft...

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United States Army Aviation Museum
Jumat, 2026-02-06 11:28:58

Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche Other notable aircraft McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane Ryan XV-5B Vertifan General Atomics MQ-1C Ryan VZ-3RY Vertiplane Curtiss-Wright...

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George Cayley
Minggu, 2026-05-24 02:13:57

centre of gravity. In 1843 he was the first to suggest the idea of a convertiplane. At some time before 1849 he designed and built a biplane in which an...

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KYB Corporation
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 00:51:40

of a Cessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into a convertiplane. In October, 2018, Kayaba Industry said it had falsified data on the...

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Stampe et Vertongen RSV.26
Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:30:43

The Stampe et Vertongen RSV.26/140, RSV.26/180, and RSV.26 Lynx were a family of training biplanes designed by Alfred Renard and built by Stampe et Vertongen...

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Kamov Ka-22
Selasa, 2026-02-17 11:36:47

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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EVTOL
Selasa, 2026-05-05 03:49:55

the motors/propellers, such as the Volocopter 2X or the Jetson One. Convertiplane designs change the direction of thrust, vectoring thrust vertically...

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Gyrodyne
Rabu, 2025-12-10 07:34:27

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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Kenneth R. Shoulders
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:41:27

SRI, Shoulders also worked on ideas for a flying car, the Gyrodyne Convertiplane. It combined the features of a car, a helicopter (a rotor on the roof...

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Flying car
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:51:22

US Folding wings 2009 Flown Terrafugia TF-X US Hybrid Unbuilt VTOL convertiplane with folding wings and rotors. Urban Aeronautics X-Hawk Israel Unbuilt...

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List of experimental aircraft
Kamis, 2026-02-05 14:04:07

boat Sud-Ouest Ariel – Tip-jet rotor helicopter Sud-Ouest Farfadet – Convertiplane Sud-Ouest Triton – First French jet aircraft Akaflieg Berlin B 9 1943...

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List of tiltrotor aircraft
Jumat, 2025-09-05 00:11:51

Winter Park, FL: Bonnier Corporation. Retrieved 2017-11-18. "Focke Convertiplane".Flight, 1955, p.214 Connor, R.D. "Curtiss-Wright X-100". National Air...

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Sikorsky S-69
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:47:10

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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Westland WG.22
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 01:52:11

The WG.22 was a proposed tiltwing convertiplane transport aircraft concept designed by Westland Aircraft in 1968, which was to be powered by four turboshaft...

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Index of aviation articles
Kamis, 2026-03-26 17:52:05

Controlled airspace – CVFR – Convergent Exhaust Nozzle Control (CENC) – Convertiplane – Cowling – Crab landing – Crash position indicator – Cross control...

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Wing configuration
Rabu, 2026-05-27 02:16:50

takeoff or STOVL performance, at extreme angles it merges into the Convertiplane class. Variable camber: the leading and/or trailing edge sections of...

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Personal air vehicle
Minggu, 2026-04-05 13:22:17

Type Country Class Date No. Status Notes Airbus A³ Vahana EU Convertiplane 2018 2 Prototype AM-20 eVTOL US Lift-plus-cruise 2019 1 Prototype Under development...

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Rotor wing
Rabu, 2024-07-03 15:22:10

the project was closed before the prototype had flown. Powered lift Convertiplane Foshag & Boehler (1969) Seifert (2012) Zipfel, Peter H.; "On Flight...

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Urban air mobility
Senin, 2026-04-27 05:24:55

aircraft are multicopters (such as the Volocopter) or so-called tiltwing convertiplane aircraft (e.g. A³ Vahana). The first type uses only rotors with vertical...

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Slowed rotor
Senin, 2025-12-15 05:20:52

wings. Carter PAV Unpowered rotor, pusher propeller, wings. Gyrodyne Convertiplane Chandler, Jay. "Advanced rotor designs break conventional helicopter...

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AgustaWestland Project Zero
Minggu, 2025-11-09 07:43:20

operating time. Project Zero is an unconventional electric-propelled convertiplane of tiltrotor configuration. It is an advanced demonstrator, intended...

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Tandem wing
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:41:17

of the tandem wing configuration into the VTOL arena, as a quadrotor convertiplane, with large tilting proprotors mounted on each wing tip. It proved overly...

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Bratukhin
Rabu, 2024-10-30 23:39:25

with tip-jet powered rotors Bratukhin heavy transport convertiplane heavy transport convertiplane with burners at blade tips and a compressed-air rotor...

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Stampe et Vertongen RSV.26/100
Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:32:22

and under license by Gates Aircraft in the United States as the Gates Convertiplane. Originally designed as a biplane, a monoplane version soon followed...

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Kayaba Heliplane
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:39:50

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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Fairey Jet Gyrodyne
Kamis, 2025-09-04 09:25:15

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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Drago Jovanovich
Jumat, 2026-02-06 11:37:46

Helicopter Control Mechanism #US2856788 A (Publication Date: 1958) Convertiplane #US 2852207 A (Publication Date: 1958) Helicopter rotor blade #US2941603...

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Napier Eland
Selasa, 2025-11-11 10:31:37

conditions. Eland N.El.6 Eland N.El.7 The 504 adapted to helicopter / convertiplane, compressed air generator use. Eland E.211 The 504 adapted for mechanically...

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Volandia
Selasa, 2026-05-26 07:15:19

AB.206-A1. A special space is reserved for the AgustaWestland AW609 convertiplane, an aircraft designed and built to obtain an effective synthesis between...

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Airbus A³ Vahana
Minggu, 2025-11-09 08:40:07

urban air mobility. The project was finished in December 2019. The convertiplane aircraft design, funded by the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus...

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Henrich Focke
Minggu, 2026-01-04 10:53:42

Aeroespacial (CTA), at the time the air force's technical center, to develop a Convertiplane, the "Convertiplano", which drew heavily on Focke's wartime work on...

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Iven C. Kincheloe Award
Rabu, 2026-02-11 14:29:48

Tymczyszyn, CAA First Commercial Jet 1959 Robert G. Ferry, Maj USAF, XV-3 convertiplane 1960 A. Scott Crossfield, North American X-15 Program William M. Magruder...

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Fairey FB-1 Gyrodyne
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 09:02:12

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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American Helicopter Museum
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:30:24

technology. The collection contains over 40 civilian and military autogyros, convertiplanes, and helicopters, including some early-generation models. The museum...

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L25
Senin, 2022-05-30 15:26:59

Klemm L.25, a German monoplane McDonnell L-25, an American experimental convertiplane This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title...

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1956 United States Army aircraft designation system
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 17:51:33

Helicopters VZ-1 Pawnee – Hiller VZ-2 – Vertol VZ-3 Vertiplane – Ryan VZ-4 Convertiplane – Doak VZ-5 Fledgling – Fairchild VZ-6 – Chrysler VZ-7 – Curtiss-Wright...

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Flettner Fl 265
Minggu, 2026-01-25 00:57:34

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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List of aircraft (Mb–Mi)
Selasa, 2024-10-22 02:20:48

developed for F-101 McDonnell Model 98 F-4 Phantom II McDonnell Model 99 Convertiplane for USAF, development of Model 78 and forerunner of Model 113 McDonnell...

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Flettner Fl 185
Rabu, 2025-06-11 04:23:57

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

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List of aircraft (Br–Bz)
Minggu, 2025-08-24 22:06:05

Bristol Type 198 various studies for SST Bristol Type 199 tiltrotor convertiplane, VTOL design Bristol Type 200 short-range airliner proposal; resembled...

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List of aircraft in the Smithsonian Institution
Rabu, 2025-08-20 03:58:44

National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved 26 April 2017. "McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane". National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2021. "McDonnell...

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EuroFAR
Rabu, 2025-09-17 23:35:40

Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Liberatore Foscolo (November 1987). "EUROFAR convertiplane detailed" (PDF). Science & Technology: Europe & Latin America. JPRS...

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Proprotor
Minggu, 2026-04-05 12:44:39

propeller and a helicopter-style rotor. Several proprotor-equipped convertiplanes, such as the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, are capable of switching...

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Pitcairn XO-61
Minggu, 2025-11-09 06:16:07

Harris, Franklin D. An Overview of Autogyros and The McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane, NASA/CR—2003–212799. NASA Ames Research Center, October 2003 Cully...

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List of aircraft (Df–Dz)
Minggu, 2026-02-01 10:26:51

Doblhoff) Doblhoff WNF 342 (Franklin A. Dobson, Whitter, CA, USA) Dobson Convertiplane (Leland Dockery and Ralph Barnecko, Valparaiso, IN) Dockery-Barneko...

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List of aircraft (G–Gn)
Selasa, 2025-07-29 23:21:53

((Ivan R) Gates Aircraft Corp, 1440 Broadway, New York, NY) Gates RSV Convertiplane (James Henry Gatling, Maney's Neck, NC) Gatling 1872 Aeroplane (Remy...

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Pace-Finletter MOU 1952
Kamis, 2026-01-08 22:12:44

request. The provisions of this memorandum are not intended to apply to convertiplane-type aircraft, nor will this agreement be interpreted to prohibit the...

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Dobson
Minggu, 2026-02-01 10:23:54

753 (Supreme Court of Canada decision)) Dobson Communications Dobson Convertiplane, a 1950s experimental aircraft Dobson ozone spectrophotometer Dobson...

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World Aircraft Information Files
Senin, 2026-02-16 17:28:42

aircraft (including VTOL, STOVL and STOBAR) 866 Compound helicopters 867 Convertiplanes 868 Engine testbeds 869 Fighter development 870 Flying-boats 871 Gliders...

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List of aircraft (B–Be)
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:58:12

XP-76 Bell XP-77 Bell XP-83 Bell R-12 Bell R-13 Bell R-15 Bell XV-3 Convertiplane Bell XV-15 Bell X-1 Bell X-2 Bell X-5 Bell X-14 Bell X-16 Bell X-22...

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List of RLM aircraft designations
Sabtu, 2025-05-24 00:51:32

(project), intended for use with He 162 8-269 Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 convertiplane (project) 8-270 Heinkel He 270 version of He 70 with DB 601 engine 8-271...

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Peter Girard
Kamis, 2026-03-19 13:22:03

System for Flexible Wing Aircraft 1963: US3155341 Filed: Apr 5, 1963. Convertiplane 1963: US3146970 Filed: July 1, 1963. Heliplane 1963: US3306559 Filed:...

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List of aircraft (F)
Kamis, 2026-05-21 05:08:28

ASW/medevac transport derivative of Fa 223 Focke-Achgelis Fa 269, twin rotor convertiplane fighter Focke-Achgelis Fa 283, turbojet-powered autogiro Focke-Achgelis...

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Joint Airborne Troop Board
Senin, 2025-04-14 13:40:38

scattered troops after an airdrop. The panel recommended the adoption of convertiplanes and heavy lift helicopters. On 26 April 1951, the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

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