The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is 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...

types, the Convair XFY Pogo, Lockheed XFV and the Hiller X-18 tilt-wing research aircraft. Fitted with the more powerful 7,100shp YT40-A-6 the XFY-1 flew...

VTOL fighters. Lockheed produced the XFV, and Convair producing the Convair XFY Pogo. Both experimental programs proceeded to flight status and completed...

Look up FY in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fy or FY may refer to: Convair XFY Pogo, an experimental aircraft Fengyun, a series of Chinese weather satellites...

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 engine...

successful transition between flight modes, as the turboprop-powered Convair XFY Pogo did in November 1954. The coleopter type has an annular wing forming...

the tail-sitting Convair XFY "Pogo" and Lockheed XFV "Salmon" VTOL fighters and the Hughes XF-11 reconnaissance plane. The Convair R3Y Tradewind flying...

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)), but...

thrust-to-weight ratio. It is loosely based on the never mass-produced Convair XFY Pogo. Fantasticar: Various flying hovercraft used by the Fantastic Four...

design configurations with relatively conventional fixed wings. The Convair XFY Pogo was one such aircraft, featuring a delta wing with cruciform tail configuration;...

aircraft Chrysler VZ-6 1959 – Ducted fan Convair NB-36 1955 – Nuclear propelled aircraft testbed Convair XFY Pogo 1954 – Fixed propeller VTOL Curtiss-Wright...

Fighter 1953 Retired Tailless. Convair XFY Pogo US Propeller Experimental 1954 Prototype Tailless VTOL, propeller-driven. Convair F-106 Delta Dart US Supersonic...

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...

the US built prototype tailsitter aircraft (the Lockheed XFV, and Convair XFY Pogo), but these were powered by conventional turboprops, with nose-mounted...

Missile (Optional) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair XFY Pogo Focke-Wulf Triebflügel Lockheed XFV SNECMA Coléoptère Related lists...

F-106 Delta Dart US Interceptor 1956 Retired 342 Convair XFY Pogo US VTOL fighter 1954 Prototype 1 Convair F2Y Sea Dart US Flying-boat jet fighter 1953 Prototype...

fighters. A related contemporary example are the wingtip support wheels ("pogos") on the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, which fall away after take-off...

MK 108 cannons Heinkel Lerche Focke-Wulf Triebflugel Lockheed XFV Convair XFY Pogo Herwig, Dieter; Rode, Heinz (2004). Luftwaffe Secret Projects: Ground...

two-axle trailer was planned for transporting and erecting Sukhoi Shkval. Convair XFY Pogo Lockheed XFV Rockwell XFV-12 Heinkel Lerche Ryan X-13 Vertijet Focke-Wulf...

vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) fighter. Convair created the tail-sitter XFY Pogo. Coleman, a Marine reservist and Convair employee, was chosen to be its test...

(1985–1993). J. F. Coleman, 95, American military and test pilot (Convair XFY Pogo), winner of the Harmon Trophy (1954), natural causes. Fred Dunsmore...

employees derisively nicknamed the aircraft the "pogo stick" (a direct reference to the rival Convair XFY's name). To begin flight testing, a temporary non-retractable...

Avitruc fuselage, 49-2883, and turboprops from the Lockheed XFV-1 and Convair XFY-1 Pogo experimental fighter programs. The tri-bladed contra-rotating propellers...

R4Y Convair Super Hustler Convair T-29 Convair X-6 Convair X-12 Convair X-30 NASP Convair XB-46 Convair XB-53 Convair XC-99 Convair XF-92 Convair XFY Pogo...

Proteus[citation needed] James F. Coleman USA CM,M First flight of the Convair XFY Pogo Michael Collins USA M Gemini 10, Apollo 11 Pete Conrad USA F Gemini...

Chrysler VZ-6 (ducted fan) Colugo Systems-ARcopter (tilt-quadcopter) Convair XFY-1 Pogo (tailsitter) Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 (flying jeep) Curtiss-Wright X-19...

worked with several prototypes, including the tail-sitting Convair XFY and Lockheed XFV "Pogo" VTOL fighters, but jet engine technology was advancing rapidly...

JD-1 Invader, P2V Neptune, and FJ Fury. On November 2, 1954, the Convair XFY-1 Pogo made a transitional flight from vertical takeoff to horizontal flight...