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    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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    The Ryan XV-8 Flexible Wing Aerial Utility Vehicle (nicknamed Fleep, short for "Flying Jeep") was an improved version of the Flex-Wing. Both aircraft...
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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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  • 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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    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...
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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...
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    North 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...
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    supersonic flight (Mach 2.03 during tests) Fokker/Republic D-24 Alliance Ryan XV-5. Fans in wings driven by engine exhaust gas. VFW VAK 191B Attack fighter...
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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...
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    fly. A 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...
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