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...

Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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))...

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...

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

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

the U.S. Space Force Bell Pogo, a two-person rocket-powered platform Convair XFY Pogo, an experimental aircraft Pogo oscillation, a potentially dangerous...

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

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...

in the wingtips. Some uncommon designs, like the Rutan Quickie, and Convair XFY placed the main landing gear in the wingtips. Some early World War I...

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...

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

1950s, the US built prototype tailsitter aircraft (the Lockheed XFV, and Convair XFY Pogo), but these were powered by conventional turboprops, with nose-mounted...

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

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

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

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...

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...

a flyable version of the experimental vertical take off and landing Convair XFY-1 Pogo of the 1950s. Gibson worked with the National Transportation Safety...

on the lower corners of the central fuselage structure. The prototype Convair XB-36 had most of its weight on two main wheels, which needed runways at...

Skytrain, 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...

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...

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...