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The Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) was an experimental tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical and flown in the United States in the 1950s. The main objective of the project was to demonstrate the ability of a pure jet to vertically take off, hover, transition to horizontal ...
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In the 1950s, Ryan was a pioneer in jet vertical flight with the X-13 Vertijet, a tail-sitting jet with a delta wing which was not used in production designs. In the 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 included the VZ-3 ...
February 12, 2011. (2011-02-12) (aged 92) La Mesa, California. Nationality. American. Peter Frank "Pete" Girard (May 5, 1918 – February 12, 2011) was a United States Army Air Forces pilot, Chief Engineering Test Pilot for Ryan Aeronautical, and the first man to hover in a jet vertical flight. This feat was accomplished on November 24, 1953 ...
A man who sent a 13-year-old girl "utterly inexcusable" naked pictures of himself has been given a suspended prison sentence. Ryan Malloy, 29 and from Gateshead, said he was on drugs when he sent ...
Ryan X-13 Vertijet ; Ryan XV-5 Vertifan (liftfans) S. Short SC.1 (liftjet and vectored thrust) Sikorsky Cypher (ducted fan) Sikorsky X-Wing (stoppable rotor; did not fly in this configuration) SNECMA Coléoptère (tailsitter) SoloTrek XFV (ducted fans) Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle (ducted fans) T. Trek Aerospace Dragonfly (ducted fans)
In the US the RA.28-49 was used in the VTOL Ryan X-13 Vertijet aircraft. In Australia, the Avon was used by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in the CA-27 Avon-Sabre. The Avon continued in production for the Sud Aviation Caravelle and English Electric (BAC) Lightning until 1974, by which time over 11,000 had been built.
The List of aircraft in the Smithsonian Institution includes aircraft exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution 's National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, and the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility. The Smithsonian Institution's collection of aircraft and spacecraft is the largest on display in the ...