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Originally Posted by Botnst
Thanks for redirecting my attention to the video & link. That's some interesting stuff. When I was a kid the USN was experimenting with a VTOL aircraft with counter-rotating props. It looked like a stubby-winged airplane (4 wings) set on it's ass. I think it was called "Pogo", like a pogo-stick. I saw one (sort of) demonstrated at NAS Oceana back in the 1950's. They just spun it up and lifted it a few feet and set it back down. I'll bet the pilot was shytting concrete terds.
If only we can bring sex into this thread, we can get it completely off!
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I think your talking about this failure and you right, the pilots got very disorientated while trying to land the things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Ugly little thing isn't it? Although I question how it would have faired in combat with a Mig
