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    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...
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    Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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    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...
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    VTOL fighters. Lockheed produced the XFV, and Convair producing the Convair XFY Pogo. Both experimental programs proceeded to flight status and completed...
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    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...
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    design configurations with relatively conventional fixed wings. The Convair XFY Pogo was one such aircraft, featuring a delta wing with cruciform tail...
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    Tracker) Northrop N-63 (rival tailsitting VTOL design to Lockheed XFV-1 and Convair XFY-1) Northrop N-65 (interceptor for WS-201 program) Northrop N-74 (tactical...
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    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...
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  • 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))...
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  • 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...
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