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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Combat Warplanes => Topic started by: No.1 on January 19, 2007, 08:20:14 AM

Title: Ryan VTOL
Post by: No.1 on January 19, 2007, 08:20:14 AM

I have read as a kid about this plane in one Yugoslav popular entartaiment magazine...  :-paper any more info about this USA VTOL project   :-roll

Title: Re: Ryan VTOL
Post by: mfg495 on January 19, 2007, 11:31:12 AM

Found this link about the Ryan XV-5B ("fan-in-wing" VTOL research aircraft)

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-3300/ch8.htm#61

Here is a link to a kit and more infomation on the aircraft

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/RyanXV-5VertifanPage.htm

Title: Re: Ryan VTOL
Post by: No.1 on January 19, 2007, 12:00:37 PM

Far enough :) :)

Title: Re: Ryan VTOL
Post by: Nico Braas on January 19, 2007, 06:21:46 PM

This was not the only VTOL jet from Ryan. They also produced the X-13 delta-wing tailsitter. To be more precisely it was a tailhanger since it did not sit on its tail like the turboprop powered XV-1 and XFY-1. Instead it was recuperated using a special vertical platform that could be raised down once the plane was coupled and secured.

Title: Re: Ryan VTOL
Post by: Nico Braas on January 19, 2007, 06:22:38 PM

Sorry, spelling mistake! Of course it was the X-13!

Title: Re: Ryan VTOL
Post by: No.1 on January 19, 2007, 10:18:00 PM

Thank you Nico... no problem with typping error :)