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    A coleopter is a type of VTOL aircraft design that uses a ducted fan as the primary fuselage of the entire aircraft. Generally they appear to be a large...
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  • 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) Lockheed...
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    coleoptrata, writing that it has a "coleopterated thorax" (similar to a coleopter). In 1801, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck separated Scutigera from Scolopendra...
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    Airbus A³ Vahana (2018) Thrust vectoring Tailsitter Tiltrotor Tiltjet Coleopter PTOL VTOL Markman, Steve and Bill Holder. "Tilt-Wing VTOL Systems". Straight...
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    aircraft (such as the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey), tiltwing, tail-sitter, and coleopter aircraft have their rotors/propellers horizontal for vertical flight and...
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    attitude. The Dornier Aerodyne is of ducted-fan configuration similar to a coleopter, and a test UAV flew successfully in hover mode in 1972, before development...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    The long and thin black legs are suited for running. This snail eater coleopter is endemic to Italian Alps, between Lake of Como and Lake of Garda. It...
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    for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft. The Lerche was an early coleopter design. It would take off and land sitting on its tail, flying horizontally...
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    as the turboprop-powered Convair XFY Pogo did in November 1954. The coleopter type has an annular wing forming a duct around a lift rotor. The transition...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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  • weapon Artificial gravity Brownian ratchet Cloaking device Cold fusion Coleopter Computronium Electrogravitics Faster than light communication Femtotechnology...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    configuration, and era Focke-Wulf Triebflügel Heinkel Lerche Lockheed XFV Coleopter § Convair Model 49 Related lists List of experimental aircraft List of...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    as pusher propeller. Convair submitted their Model 49, a tail sitting coleopter. Lockheed submitted the CL-840 design, a rigid-rotor compound helicopter...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    30 mm MK-103 each with 100 rounds + 2 × 20 mm MG-151 each with 250 rounds Coleopter Focke Rochen Heinkel Lerche List of German aircraft projects, 1939–45...
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    transport aircraft Convair Model 49 N/A 0 Unbuilt three turboprop-engine coleopter Convair 660 N/A 0 Unbuilt twin jet-engine airliner Convair Model 200 N/A...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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    nor are experimental aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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