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    The Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) was an experimental tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical...
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    flight with the X-13 Vertijet, a tail-sitting jet with a delta wing which was not used in production designs. In the early 1960s, Ryan built the XV-5 Vertifan...
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    flights 1954–1955, when the contracts were cancelled. Similarly, the Ryan X-13 Vertijet flew a series of test flights between 1955 and 1957, but also suffered...
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    Ryan X-13 Vertijet. Two prototypes were constructed, both of which flew, made successful transitions to and from horizontal flight, and landed. The X-13's...
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    1953, during tests that would culminate in the development of the Ryan X-13 Vertijet. He would later accomplish the first full-cycle vertical takeoff,...
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    by Fabrique Nationale. In the US the RA.28-49 was used in the VTOL Ryan X-13 Vertijet aircraft. In Australia, the Avon was used by Commonwealth Aircraft...
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    Convair X-12 – Three engine missile testbed for Atlas Ryan X-13 Vertijet – Tail sitter VTOL jet Bell X-14 – Thrust vectoring VTOL jet North American X-15 –...
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  • rotor) Ryan X-13 Vertijet (tailsitter) Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (liftfans) Short SC.1 (liftjet and vectored thrust) Sikorsky Cypher (ducted fan) Sikorsky X-Wing...
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  • Republic YRF-84F FICON 49-2430 Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor 46-0680 Ryan X-13 Vertijet 54-1620 Scaled Composites Long-EZ 03-0001 Fairchild C-82 Packet 48-581...
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  • Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi Piper L-4 Grasshopper Ryan X-13 Vertijet Saab J 29F Tunnan Stinson SR-10F Reliant Vought V-173 Wiseman-Cooke...
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    configuration, and era Convair XFY Focke-Wulf Triebflügel Heinkel Lerche Ryan X-13 Vertijet Related lists List of Lockheed aircraft List of fighter aircraft List...
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    adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game Ryan X-13 Vertijet, an American experimental aircraft ThinkPad X13 Yoga, a laptop "X13"...
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    BQM-74 Chukar Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Ryan X-13 Vertijet Related lists List of experimental aircraft Parsch 2002 Eilertson...
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    Fighting Falcon Bell UH-1 Iroquois Ryan X-13 Vertijet Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier Boeing FB-5 Hawk (reproduction) Ryan PT-22 Recruit WACO YKS-7 Sikorsky...
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  • Meanwhile, Hawker’s chief designer Sidney Camm, noting the success of the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, had developed an interest in VTOL aircraft, which he expressed in...
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  • Shkval. Convair XFY Pogo Lockheed XFV Rockwell XFV-12 Heinkel Lerche Ryan X-13 Vertijet Focke-Wulf Triebflügel Yefim Gordon, Sergey Komissarov Unflown Wings...
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  • Professional Baseball League, is among the dead. November 28 – The Ryan X-13 Vertijet makes its first transition from vertical to horizontal flight November...
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    a role in the development of many military projects, such as the Ryan X-13 Vertijet. A REAC was the first computer at Naval Air Weapons Station China...
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    "X-Planes Experimental Aircraft". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 1 June 2012. Miller 1983, p.13. Miller 2001, p. 209 First Generation X-1...
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    take off and landing aircraft exploring different ideas, including the X-13 Vertijet tailsitter, the VZ-3 Vertiplane, the XV-5 Vertifan and the XV-8 Flexible...
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  • John Howard, San Diego, and Howard Bianchi, Escondido." This was the Ryan X-13 Vertijet. 28 March A Boeing B-47B-35-BW Stratojet, 51-2175, of the 3520th FTW...
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    advance of freely hovering. During early development work for the Ryan X-13 Vertijet, test rigs were repeatedly flown via remote control while tethered...
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  • Ryan PT-21 Ryan PT-22 Recruit Ryan PT-25 Ryan SOR Ryan V-5 Vertifan Ryan V-8 Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane Ryan VZ-11 Vertifan Ryan X-13 Vertijet Mahoney-Ryan...
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    Collections: Purdue University Libraries. "Cable premiere". The Deseret News. August 13, 1991. First Flights with Neil Armstrong at IMDb First Flights at TV Guide...
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  • Convair X-13 VertijetRyan X-14 – Bell X-15 – North American X-16 – Bell (not built) X-17 – Lockheed X-18 – Hiller X-19 – Curtiss-Wright X-20 Dyna-Soar...
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    hired by Ryan Aeronautical Company as their second test pilot for the X-13 Vertijet, joining Ryan’s Chief Test Pilot, Pete Girard. The X-13 was the world’s...
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