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    The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is an experimental V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft developed during the early years of the Cold War. It was...
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    Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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    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...
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  • Chrysler VZ-6 (ducted fan) Colugo Systems-ARcopter (tilt-quadcopter) Convair XFY-1 Pogo (tailsitter) Curtiss-Wright VZ-7 (flying jeep) Curtiss-Wright X-19...
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    Coleopter (redirect from Convair Model 49)
    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...
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    VTOL fighters. Lockheed produced the XFV, and Convair producing the Convair XFY Pogo. Both experimental programs proceeded to flight status and completed...
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  • fuselage 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...
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    successful transition between flight modes, as the turboprop-powered Convair XFY Pogo did in November 1954. The coleopter type has an annular wing forming...
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    Avitruc fuselage, 49-2883, and turboprops from the Lockheed XFV-1 and Convair XFY-1 Pogo experimental fighter programs. The tri-bladed contra-rotating...
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    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...
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