Awesome WW2 experimental Aircraft
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The Irbitis designer went on to Quebec, where he designed a control system for a short-lived VTOL aircraft at Canadair. The Walter Sagitta engine was the powerplant, and the aircraft would have been a shoe-in for a PT6A, with much more power and much less weight. The same engine powered the push-pull Fokker D.XXIII.
I was going to ask where are the inlets but I looked it up and had a chuckle.
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A Walter Sagitta - small V-12 (18l)
The I-16 is a handsome looking plane. Irbitis had another design (VEF I-19) in the drawing stage, but the German invasion derailed further development
...... Indiana Jones ..... Also the Arado-like attackers in a later Indy movie, complete down to the pitch change vanes on the spinners.
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Those Arado-like airplanes were played by Pilatus P-2 trainers built in Switzerland after WW2. Pilatus production incorporated genuine vane-propellers bolted to genuine Argus 410 engines salvaged from Nazi-surplus WW2 production. P-2 production also included undercarriage salvaged from Me109 fighters.
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Those Arado-like airplanes were played by Pilatus P-2 trainers built in Switzerland after WW2. Pilatus production incorporated genuine vane-propellers bolted to genuine Argus 410 engines salvaged from Nazi-surplus WW2 production. P-2 production also included undercarriage salvaged from Me109 fighters.
Archibald, #48,
You asked if there was documentation for the tip-turbine development of the Vought XF5U follow-on. I learned of it during a discussion with the Vought engineer assigned to the Regulus II program at Point Mugu NAS in 1963. The subject was whether the unmanned aircraft could be zoom-climbed to an altitude record employing the dynamic performance optimization methodology developed by my company, and demonstrated earlier with the F-104. (No, later computer simulations indicated too much drag during the pre-zoom pitchup.) Lots of napkin sketches at the O-Club, also by the Navy project officer and the GE rep who also attended.
Seems to me there was mention of Vought and possibly Ryan in a later "Air Progress" article on the unsuccessful Lockheed and Convair Navy VTOL prototypes.
Dynasoar
You asked if there was documentation for the tip-turbine development of the Vought XF5U follow-on. I learned of it during a discussion with the Vought engineer assigned to the Regulus II program at Point Mugu NAS in 1963. The subject was whether the unmanned aircraft could be zoom-climbed to an altitude record employing the dynamic performance optimization methodology developed by my company, and demonstrated earlier with the F-104. (No, later computer simulations indicated too much drag during the pre-zoom pitchup.) Lots of napkin sketches at the O-Club, also by the Navy project officer and the GE rep who also attended.
Seems to me there was mention of Vought and possibly Ryan in a later "Air Progress" article on the unsuccessful Lockheed and Convair Navy VTOL prototypes.
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Wasn't expecting a nose intake. Not sure the airflow would work either, risk of compressor stall problems.
It looks like it in the two pics I posted earlier but in this pic it doesn't, it looks more stretched out here.
