List of VTOL aircraft
This is a list of fixed-wing aircraft capable of
gyrocopters
, because they are assumed to have this capability.
For more detail on subtypes of VTOL, see List of tiltrotor aircraft.
A
- AeroVironment SkyTote (tailsitter)
- AgustaWestland AW609(tiltrotor)
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 (ducted fan)
- Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar (ducted fan)
B
- BAE Harrier II(vectored thrust)
- BAE Sea Harrier(vectored thrust)
- Bell 65 ATV (Tiltjet)
- AgustaWestland AW609
- Bell Boeing Quad TiltRotor (proposal)
- Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey (tiltrotor)
- Bell Eagle Eye (tiltrotor UAV)
- Bell V-280 Valor (tiltrotor)
- Bell X-14 (vectored thrust)
- Bell X-22 (ducted fan)
- Bell XV-3 (first tiltrotor)
- Bell XV-15 (tiltrotor)
- Bensen B-10 (ducted fan)
- Boeing/McDonnell Douglas AV-8 Harrier(vectored thrust)
- Boeing-Vertol VZ-2 (tiltwing)
- Boeing X-32B (vectored thrust)
- Boeing X-50(stoppable-rotor gyrodyne UAV - failed to achieve forward flight)
- Boulton Paul P.137 VTOL research aircraft
- Boulton Paul P.142 VTOL research aircraft
- British Aerospace P.125
C
- Canadair CL-84 Dynavert (tiltwing)
- Carlson-Lynch Vertipactor
- Chappedelaine LeGyraptere
- Chrysler VZ-6 (ducted fan)
- Colugo Systems-ARcopter (tilt-quadcopter)
- Convair XFY-1Pogo (tailsitter)
- Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 (flying jeep)
- Curtiss-Wright X-19 (tiltrotor)
D
- Dassault Balzac V (separate lift and thrust engines)
- Dassault Mirage IIIV (separate lift and thrust engines)
- Doak 16/VZ-4DA (ducted fans)
- Dornier Do 31 (thrust vectoring and lift jets)
- DuPont Aerospace DP-1 (vectored thrust)
E
- EWR VJ 101 (tiltjets and lift jets)
F
- Fairey Gyrodyne (gyrodyne)
- Fairey Jet Gyrodyne (gyrodyne)
- Fairey Rotodyne (gyrodyne)
- FLUTR model 1 (quadcopter gimbal duct tilt rotor swing wing)
- tailsitter, not built)
- Fokker/Republic D-24 Alliance (mockup only)
G
- Garrett STAMP (vectored thrust)
- Grumman Future Attack Air Vehicle
- Grumman Model 623
- Grumman Nutcracker (tilt-fuselage[1])
H
- Hawker P.1127(vectored thrust)
- Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vectored thrust)
- Hawker Siddeley Kestrel(vectored thrust)
- Hawker-Siddeley HS.133
- Hawker-Siddeley HS.138 (ducted fans)[2]
- Hawker-Siddeley HS.145
- Hawker Siddeley P.1017 (cancelled supersonic vectored thrust)
- Hawker Siddeley P.1154 (cancelled supersonic vectored thrust)
- Hawker Siddeley P.1184-16 Dash 18
- Hawker Siddeley P.1217
- Heinkel Lerche (coleopter; not built)
- Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (ducted fan)
- Hiller X-18 (tiltwing)
L
- Thrust Vectoring)
- tailsitter)
- Lockheed XV-4 Hummingbird (vectored thrust with entrained air)
- LTV XC-142 (tiltwing)
- Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (gimbaled vertically mounted jet)
M
- Martin Jetpack (portable ducted fans)
- McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II (Tilted output vector and RR vectors)
- Messerschmitt P 1227 (VJ 101B)[3]
- Moller Skycar(vectoring ducted fans)
N
- tailsitter proposal)[4]
- Northrop Grumman Tern
- Northrop MRF-54E
O
- Opener BlackFly
P
- Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep (ducted fans)
- Porter Gyropachute (ducted fan)
R
- Republic AP-100 (ducted fans)
- Rockwell XFV-12 (wing lift augmentation, failed to fly)
- Rolls-Royce Griffith VTOL (separate lift and thrust engines)[5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (vertically mounted jet)
- Rotary Rocket Roton (rotating annular aerospike rotor)
- tailsitter)
- Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (liftfans)
S
- Short SC.1 (liftjet and vectored thrust)
- Sikorsky Cypher (ducted fan)
- Sikorsky X-Wing (stoppable rotor; did not fly in this configuration)
- SNECMA Coléoptère (tailsitter)
- SoloTrek XFV (ducted fans)
- Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle (ducted fans)
T
- Trek Aerospace Dragonfly (ducted fans)
V
- VFW SG 1262 Schwebegestell
- VFW VAK 191B (vectored thrust plus vertical lift)
- Volocopter VoloConnect
W
- Williams WASP[11]
- Williams X-Jet (flying platform)
Y
- Yakovlev Yak-141 (liftjet and vectored thrust)
- Yakovlev Yak-36 (vectored thrust)
- Yakovlev Yak-38 (liftjet and vectored thrust)
Z
- Zhuchenko Vertoplan (tiltwing)
See also
- Coleopter
- Compound helicopter
- Gyroplane
- Tiltjet
- Tiltrotor
- Tail-sitter
- Tiltwing
References
- ^ "Popular Science". Retrieved 2013-09-25.
- ^ Hatfield Future Projects Newsletters No.24, April 1988
- ^ http://www.robertcmason.com/textdocs/GermanVSTOLFighters.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Choi, Charles Q. (2010-01-19). "Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane". Scientific American. Retrieved 2009-01-22.
- ^ Rolls Royce Leader of the Skies by Michael Donne, p.152
- ^ AVIATION WEEK, August 26 1957, p.43
- ^ Flight 1960
- ^ Flugwelt 1961
- ^ 50 Years with Rolls-Royce: My Reminiscences published by the RRHT
- ^ RAE. conceptual low altitude tactical bomber, 1954
- ^ Flight 21 Feb 1974, p. 251
External links
- Flying platforms[usurped]
- Gizmagazines' PAV aircraft
- Horizontal or Vertical Take-off or Landing (HOVTOL) Reference US Patent 5,890,441
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