US VTOL ‘TAIL-SITTERS’

DATABASE Development Technical Details Flight-Testing Insights Convair XFY-1 Lockheed XFV-1 ARTWORKS BY CHRIS SANDHAM-BAILEY Ryan X-13 A quintessential image from the flight trials of the ‘tail-sitters’: legendary Convair test pilot James F. ‘Skeets’ Coleman demonstrating the XFY-1 to the press at Brown Field, San Diego in September 1954. ALL KEY COLLECTION UNLESS OTHERWISE CREDITED