Here's the strangest flying machine yet, made from a Cessna 170. That's Joe Harris in the cockpit, making his first attempt to fly slower than a B-model.
A 65 ATV 1954 = 1pOhwM VTOL "Air Test Vehicle." Two 1000# Fairchild J44 turbojets, tiltable 90° for lift and propulsion + one Turbomèca Palouste turbo-generator delivering compressed air to the attitude control system; span: 26'0" length: 21'0" v: 125/x/0. Built from wings from a Cessna 170, fuselage from a Schweizer glider, and landing gear from a Bell 47. Hovering and conventional flights were made on 11/16/54 and 12/18/58 respectively (p: David Howe), but no transitions. The test program was terminated in 1955. POP: 2 [N1105V, x], with the second one destroyed in an engine fire on the ground.
gahorn wrote:Here's the strangest flying machine yet, made from a Cessna 170. That's Joe Harris in the cockpit, making his first attempt to fly slower than a B-model.
A 65 ATV 1954 = 1pOhwM VTOL "Air Test Vehicle." Two 1000# Fairchild J44 turbojets, tiltable 90° for lift and propulsion + one Turbomèca Palouste turbo-generator delivering compressed air to the attitude control system; span: 26'0" length: 21'0" v: 125/x/0. Built from wings from a Cessna 170, fuselage from a Schweizer glider, and landing gear from a Bell 47. Hovering and conventional flights were made on 11/16/54 and 12/18/58 respectively (p: David Howe), but no transitions. The test program was terminated in 1955. POP: 2 [N1105V, x], with the second one destroyed in an engine fire on the ground.
