The Ryan XV-5 Vertifan was a jet-powered V/STOL experimental aircraft in the 1960s. The United States Army (US Army) commissioned the Ryan VZ-11-RY (re-designated...
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early 1960s, Ryan built the XV-5 Vertifan for the U.S. Army, which used wing- and nose-mounted lift vanes for V/STOL vertical flight. Other Ryan V/STOL designs...
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comparable role, configuration, and era Hawker P.1127 Rockwell XFV-12 Ryan XV-5 Vertifan Related lists List of military aircraft of the United States List...
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General Electric J85 (redirect from General Electric J85-GE-5)
American T-2 Buckeye Northrop F-5 Northrop T-38 Talon Republic AP-100 Ryan MQM-34D Mod II target drone Ryan XV-5 Vertifan Saab 105Ö Scaled Composites White...
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Yakovlev Yak-38 'Forger'. That plane flew and later crashed in 1969. The Ryan XV-5 Vertifan, which was also built for the U.S. Army at the same time as the Hummingbird...
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Single stage to orbit helicopter rocket Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane 1958 – Blown flap VTOL research Ryan XV-5 Vertifan 1964 – Fan lift VTOL research Sawyer Skyjacker...
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tandem-fan version was proposed but never built. By contrast the Ryan XV-5 Vertifan of 1964 was an otherwise conventional delta-wing jet. It had a large...
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Rotary Rocket Roton (rotating annular aerospike rotor) Ryan X-13 Vertijet (tailsitter) Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (liftfans) Short SC.1 (liftjet and vectored thrust)...
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role, configuration, and era Bell X-14 Hunting H.126 Rockwell XFV-12 Ryan XV-5 Vertifan Short SC.1 Yakovlev Yak-36 Yakovlev Yak-38 Related lists List of VTOL...
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Hunting H.126 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Lockheed Martin X-35 Ryan XV-5 Vertifan Rockwell XFV-12 Short SC.1 Yakovlev Yak-36 Yakovlev Yak-38 Yakovlev...
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The General Electric X353-5 was an unusual, high bypass ratio, liftfan system developed for the Ryan XV-5 Vertifan V/STOL research aircraft (known earlier...
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conventional circular lift fans used in the Ryan XV-5 Vertifan and the F-35B Lightning II (JSF). The Ryan XV-5 and the F-35B use relatively smaller lift...
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American test pilot (27 April 1965), prior to failed ejection from Ryan XV-5 Vertifan "Well, Jan, we were lucky at that." — Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast...
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April 1965 (section April 5, 1965 (Monday))
the test flight of a prototype vertical take-off jet aircraft, the Ryan XV-5 Vertifan. Test pilot Lou Everett lifted the jet from Edwards Air Force Base...
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ter-completes-kennedys-security-fleet/ Jenkins, Landis & Miller 2003, pp. 5–7. Jenkins, Landis & Miller 2003, p. 11. "NASA's Retired SOFIA Aircraft Finds...
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the XV-5 Vertifan and the XV-8 Flexible Wing Aerial Utility Vehicle although none of these led to a production aircraft.: 226–235 In 1969, Ryan sold...
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Comanche Other notable aircraft McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane Ryan XV-5B Vertifan General Atomics MQ-1C Ryan VZ-3RY Vertiplane Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 Lockheed...
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next project was the XV-5 Vertifan, jointly developed by Ryan and General Electric, and first flown by Everett. The Vertifan employed the lift fan concept...
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designed and the starboard gearboxes of all XC-142s are modified. 5 October Ryan XV-5A Vertifan, 62-4506, crashes at Edwards Air Force Base, California, killing...
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Retrieved July 7, 2008. Waggoner, Walter H. (September 14, 1982). "T. Claude Ryan, Air Pioneer, Dies; Built Lindbergh's Historic Plane". The New York Times...
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