The Convair XFY-1 Pogo was an experimental V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft developed during the early years of the Cold War. It was... 12 KB (1,373 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2024 |
Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was... 27 KB (2,094 words) - 18:08, 4 April 2024 |
the Convair XFY-1 Pogo, Lockheed XFV-1 and the Hiller X-18 tilt-wing research aircraft. Fitted with the more powerful 7,100shp YT40-A-6 the XFY-1 flew... 13 KB (1,606 words) - 15:12, 20 December 2023 |
VTOL fighters. Lockheed produced the XFV, and Convair producing the Convair XFY Pogo. Both experimental programs proceeded to flight status and completed... 34 KB (4,123 words) - 19:06, 5 May 2024 |
Coleopter (redirect from Convair Model 49) conventional helicopters. As a "tail-sitter" design, and like its forebear the Convair XFY-1 POGO, the Model 49 was intended to take off from a vertical orientation... 8 KB (995 words) - 00:21, 28 April 2024 |
design configurations with relatively conventional fixed wings. The Convair XFY Pogo was one such aircraft, featuring a delta wing with cruciform tail... 16 KB (1,799 words) - 17:19, 17 November 2023 |
flights but is operationally a STOVL. In 1951, the Lockheed XFV and the Convair XFY Pogo tailsitters were both designed around the Allison YT40 turboprop... 7 KB (866 words) - 01:56, 25 January 2024 |
turboprop tailsitter fighter prototypes were designed for the US Navy, the Convair XFY "Pogo" (610 mph (980 km/h)) and the Lockheed XFV (578 mph (930 km/h))... 16 KB (2,038 words) - 23:09, 6 March 2024 |
only Bücker Bü 181 B-1 Bestmann Cessna O-2A Cierva C.8W Convair 240 Convair XFY-1 Pogo Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart Culver TD2C-1 Curtiss (NAF) TS-2/3 Curtiss-Wright... 89 KB (6,970 words) - 02:18, 21 April 2024 |