DEVELOPMENT – Key Publishing

DEVELOPMENT

DATABASE US VTOL ‘TAIL-SITTERS At the outset of fixed-wing vertical take-off and landing aircraft development, the ‘tail-sitter’ concept seemed a practical one A period artist’s impression of three Lockheed Model L-200 ‘convoy fighters’ launching, as a press release put it, “for the defence of important industrial plants”. From this design, submitted to meet US Navy requirement OS-122 but here envisaged in USAF service, the XFV-1 prototype was developed. No, not Gerry Anderson creations, but renderings by Ryan of how a