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  • Anonymous coward on 2005-Feb-07 14:52:34 Anonymous coward said

    martial
    The plane no one wanted to test.
  • Anonymous coward on 2005-Apr-22 15:15:32 Anonymous coward said

    O2B
    They called it the Pogo for a reason
  • Anonymous coward on 2005-May-03 16:37:33 Anonymous coward said

    kmac
    why bother with something like this?
  • Anonymous coward on 2005-May-09 17:14:29 Anonymous coward said

    Nick
    you wouldn't want to land that in a strong wind
  • Anonymous coward on 2005-Jun-16 12:24:29 Anonymous coward said

    Bri
    What a terrible idea, did that engine and prop of enough lift for it anyway, crazy tax money wasting ideas.
  • Anonymous coward on 2005-Oct-08 00:27:49 Anonymous coward said

    majlogon
    Actually, Lockheed footed the bill. they gave up when the pilot had difficulties with "reverse".
  • Anonymous coward on 2006-Apr-25 22:00:53 Anonymous coward said

    Marine57
    One similar to this sat at the entrance to Allison in Indianapolis for years. The major problem with this design is that while the wheels were touching the ground, the rudder controls were nearly ineffective, creating an easy aircraft fall-over condition.
  • Anonymous coward on 2006-Jun-14 19:58:56 Anonymous coward said

    Mace
    Not to mention the problem in seeing where you were landing.
  • Anonymous coward on 2006-Jun-29 16:45:49 Anonymous coward said

    mebb
    Taking off, cool. Landing, not cool. Taxiing? I don't think so.
  • Anonymous coward on 2006-Sep-10 04:44:30 Anonymous coward said

    a320 guy
    It had 'normal' landing gear as well.
    It had so much power, even at idle, pilots had to perform high-g maneuvers to slow it down for vertical landings, otherwise it would climb too high while bleeding off speed.
  • Anonymous coward on 2006-Sep-10 04:45:37 Anonymous coward said

    a320 guy
    For vertical landings, the seat partially rotated so the pilot could see over his shoulder without getting a crick in his neck. =8-)
  • Anonymous coward on 2007-Jun-16 18:49:55 Anonymous coward said

    g.p.
    So this is where they got the idea for the unicycle
  • Anonymous coward on 2007-Jul-28 05:21:45 Anonymous coward said

    schwambly
    Why bother with this? What made this design useful was what engineers and designers LEARNED from it. It was experimental. Much of what was learned was what did NOT work for VTOL aircraft. It's the way aviation development works.
  • Anonymous coward on 2007-Oct-10 20:52:13 Anonymous coward said

    biggs
    Normans giant novelty card table and hostess trolly was a big hit at parties
  • Anonymous coward on 2007-Nov-04 02:38:37 Anonymous coward said

    Blaster
    this hapened in a base with no chopper
  • Anonymous coward on 2008-Mar-12 22:08:23 Anonymous coward said

    Tango
    Ok, say you land at a remote field somewhere...and there is no one to meet your plane...what do you do? open the canopy and fall the heck out? Then what? (I am glad we learned from this and moved on)
  • Anonymous coward on 2009-Nov-19 22:27:16 Anonymous coward said

    roarshock
    The Navy was trying to see if they could put fighter planes on ships smaller than an aircraft carrier. Answer: No Way! At least not in the 1950s!

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