A convertiplane is defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI or World Air Sports Federation) as an aircraft which uses rotor power for...

The McDonnell XV-1 is an experimental Convertiplane developed by McDonnell Aircraft for a joint research program between the United States Air Force and...

"private plane for the million", a foldable single-engined tiltrotor convertiplane. Richard William Pearse, born at Waitohi Flat, South Canterbury, New...

designs that have unique design features to achieve powered lift. A convertiplane takes off under rotor lift like a helicopter, then transitions to fixed-wing...

The Hiller X-18 was an experimental cargo transport aircraft designed to be the first testbed for tiltwing and V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing)...

multicopter that has four rotors. Although quadrotor helicopters and convertiplanes have long been flown experimentally, the configuration remained a curiosity...

solely fixed-wing lift in horizontal flight is not a rotorcraft but a convertiplane. A helicopter is a powered rotorcraft with rotors driven by the engine(s)...

list of rotorcraft, including helicopters, autogyros, rotor kites and convertiplanes. A-B Helicopters A/W 95 Aero HC-2 Heli Baby Aero-Astra Okhotnik 1 Aero...

flight. On 5 January 1959, the Rotodyne set a world speed record in the convertiplane category, at 190.9 mph (307.2 km/h), over a 60-mile (97 km) closed circuit...

This is a list of aircraft sorted by maximum takeoff weight. MTOW = Maximum take-off weight, MLW = Maximum landing weight, TOR = Take-off run (SL, ISA+15°...

boat (for Pan Am), never built (1938) Sikorsky S-57/XV-2: Supersonic convertiplane with single blade retractable rotor. Never built. Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66...

Doak VZ-4 General information Type VTOL research convertiplane Manufacturer Doak Aircraft Company Status preserved at Fort Eustis VA Primary user United...

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

was a planned experimental stoppable rotor aircraft, designated as a convertiplane, developed for a joint research program between the United States Air...

United States Marines, use a tiltrotor or tiltwing. These are called a convertiplane. Others like the British Harrier jump jet use thrust vectoring or other...

powered the main rotor for vertical flight. None entered production. The convertiplane has a conventional wing for lift in forward flight and a rotary wing...

The Convertiplano is a cancelled Brazilian convertiplane project. It is based on the earlier Focke-Achgelis Fa 269. Henrich Focke revived the design in...

solely fixed-wing lift in horizontal flight is not a rotorcraft but a convertiplane. A lifting body is an aircraft which produces lift through the shape...

– 29, 1938: Facts and Myths Surrounding the Foundations of Autogiro/Convertiplane/Helicopter Development in America and Europe (PDF). American Helicopter...

Hybrid convertiplane "Irbis-538" during the "Armiya 2021" exhibition...

United States Air Force and the United States Army in order to explore convertiplane technologies. The XV-3 featured an engine mounted in the fuselage with...

gyroplane, during the early 1950s. This rotorcraft was classified as a convertiplane; the propulsion system was powered by a single Continental-built R-975...

Controlled airspace – CVFR – Convergent Exhaust Nozzle Control (CENC) – Convertiplane – Cowling – Crab landing – Crash position indicator – Cross control...

Focke-Wulf Fw 61, Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache and Kamov Ka-22 Vintokryl convertiplane. Construction of the V-12 first prototype, after exhaustive testing...

production begins. January 1964 First flight of Kaman's experimental Convertiplane equipped with a GE J-85 turbojet engine and wings from a Beechcraft...

0 Unbuilt eight jet engine VTOL fighter Bell Model 50 N/A 0 Unbuilt convertiplane Bell Model 49 1 Experimental single piston engine helicopter Bell Rocket...

centre of gravity. In 1843 he was the first to suggest the idea of a convertiplane. At some time before 1849 he designed and built a biplane in which an...

185 Kamov Ka-22 Kayaba Industry Heliplane (Type-1) Related topics Advancing Blade Concept (ABC) Autogyro Compound helicopter Convertiplane Helicopter...

of a Cessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into a convertiplane. In October, 2018, Kayaba Industry said it had falsified data on the...

Winter Park, FL: Bonnier Corporation. Retrieved 2017-11-18. "Focke Convertiplane".Flight, 1955, p.214 Connor, R.D. "Curtiss-Wright X-100". National Air...