The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar is a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the...
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Avrocar are an electronica band from Birmingham, England. Band member Antony Harding has another more folk-oriented project called July Skies. Cinematography...
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Circular wing (section Avrocar)
over most of the project funding. The final outcome of Silver Bug was the Avrocar or VZ-9AV, effectively (and unintentionally) a prototype hovercraft rather...
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Avro Canada (section Avrocar)
Avrocar prototypes failed to perform at heights above three feet off the ground, the U.S. Army and USAF cancelled the project, in 1961. Both Avrocars...
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John Carver Meadows Frost (section The American connection: Project Y-2 / Weapons Systems 606A / VZ-9-AV Avrocar)
Special Project Group, a "proof-of-concept" vehicle, the VZ-9-AV "Avrocar". Two Avrocar prototypes were constructed and completed a series of wind tunnel...
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(built) included the C102 Jetliner, CF-100 Canuck, CF-105 Arrow and VZ-9- AV Avrocar. Only the CF-100 fighter entered full-scale production. Other design projects...
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Goebbel's Propagandaministerium. Yenne, William (2003). From Focke-Wulf to Avrocar: Secret Weapons of World War II: The Techno-Military Breakthroughs That...
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Only one of Frost's designs was ever built, the Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar. The Avrocar (often listed as 'VZ-9') was a Canadian vertical takeoff and landing...
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Vulcan Avro 723 – DC-3 replacement Avro 724 – Project Y; alternative for Avrocar, tail-sitting VTOL Avro 725 – advanced trainer version of Type 720 to OR...
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AW609 (tiltrotor) Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 (ducted fan) Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar (ducted fan) BAE Harrier II (vectored thrust) BAE Sea Harrier (vectored...
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aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g. kytoon and hybrid...
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jets, commercial aircraft, Canada's first helicopter, the "flying saucer" Avrocar, flight simulators, and a Black Brant rocket built in Manitoba by Bristol...
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Aerion AS2 Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar Boeing 727 Boeing X-48 Boom XB-1 Bristol Type 200 Convair Model 200 Convair XB-53 Dassault Falcon 50 Dassault Falcon...
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In 1953, when Avro Canada announced that it was developing the VZ-9-AV Avrocar, a circular jet aircraft with an estimated speed of 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h)...
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until the U.S. Army and Air Force took over development of the Avrocar in 1958. The Avrocar encountered issues with both thrust and stability and the project...
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aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g. kytoon and hybrid...
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aircraft with novel thrust / lift solutions (e.g. coleopter, Flying Bedstead, Avrocar and flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids (e.g. kytoon and hybrid...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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late in the war, lumped together with other disk-shaped aircraft like the Avrocar, Sack AS-6 and Vought V-173, in an effort to demonstrate that such aircraft...
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Trainer (CCT-1) American Helicopter XH-26 Jet Jeep 50‐1841 Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar 58-7055 Bell P-59B Airacomet 44-22650 Bell X-1B 48-1385 Bell X-5 50-1838...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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circular wings were built later like the Sack AS-6, the Vought XF5U and the Avrocar. (Note: Nemeth is sometimes spelled Nuneth.) Steven P. Nemeth was a flight...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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photographs. Auster AOP.6[failed verification] Avro CF-100 Canuck 5 18674 Avrocar – replica Beechcraft CT-134 Musketeer 134235 Beechcraft Expeditor 3N 1477...
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2/180 Gyroplane Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck C-102 Jetliner CF-105 Arrow VZ-9 Avrocar Bell Textron 212 214ST 230 407 412 427 429 GlobalRanger 505 Jet Ranger...
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