- A
coleopter is a type of VTOL
aircraft design that uses a
ducted fan as the
primary fuselage of the
entire aircraft.
Generally they
appear to be a large...
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Hawker Siddeley P.1184-16 Dash 18
Hawker Siddeley P.1217
Heinkel Lerche (
coleopter; not built)
Hiller VZ-1
Pawnee (ducted fan)
Hiller X-18 (tiltwing) Lockheed...
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Flying Platform Hiller VXT-8
Coleopter Grumman HU-16
Albatross Boeing 747
SpaceShipOne San
Francisco Bay Area
portal Coleopter List of
aerospace museums...
- coleoptrata,
writing that it has a "coleopterated thorax" (similar to a
coleopter). In 1801, Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck separated scutigera from scolopendra...
- attitude. The
Dornier Aerodyne is of ducted-fan
configuration similar to a
coleopter, and a test UAV flew
successfully in
hover mode in 1972,
before development...
- nor are
experimental aircraft with
novel thrust / lift
solutions (e.g.
coleopter,
Flying Bedstead,
Avrocar and
flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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aircraft (such as the Bell
Boeing V-22 Osprey), tiltwing, tail-sitter, and
coleopter aircraft have
their rotors/propellers
horizontal for
vertical flight and...
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Weserflug P.1003 (1938)
Thrust vectoring Tailsitter Tiltrotor Tiltjet Coleopter PTOL VTOL Markman,
Steve and Bill Holder. "Tilt-Wing VTOL Systems". Straight...
- nor are
experimental aircraft with
novel thrust / lift
solutions (e.g.
coleopter,
Flying Bedstead,
Avrocar and
flettner airplane) or balloon-wing hybrids...
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revolutionary VTOL
fighter and ground-attack aircraft. The
Lerche was an
early coleopter design. It
would take off and land
sitting on its tail,
flying horizontally...
