- The Avro
Canada VZ-9
Avrocar was a VTOL
aircraft developed by Avro
Canada as part of a
secret U.S.
military project carried out in the
early years of...
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Avrocar are an
electronica band from Birmingham, England. Band
member Antony Harding has
another more folk-oriented
project called July Skies. Cinematography...
- over most of the
project funding. The
final outcome of
Silver Bug was the
Avrocar or VZ-9AV,
effectively (and unintentionally) a
prototype hovercraft rather...
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Avrocar prototypes failed to
perform at
heights above three feet off the ground, the U.S. Army and USAF
cancelled the project, in 1961. Both
Avrocars...
- some, such as the
Avrocar and M200G
Volantor have been
produced in
limited numbers, most fail to
leave the
drawing board. The
Avrocar, with
vertical takeoff...
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Special Project Group, a "proof-of-concept" vehicle, the VZ-9-AV "
Avrocar". Two
Avrocar prototypes were
constructed and
completed a
series of wind tunnel...
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until the U.S. Army and Air
Force took over
development of the
Avrocar in 1958. The
Avrocar encountered issues with both
thrust and
stability and the project...
- (built)
included the C102 Jetliner, CF-100 Canuck, CF-105
Arrow and VZ-9- AV
Avrocar. Only the CF-100
fighter entered full-scale production.
Other design projects...
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Fairchild VZ-6 –
Chrysler VZ-7 – Curtiss-Wright VZ-8
Airgeep –
Piasecki VZ-9
Avrocar – Avro
Canada VZ-10
Hummingbird –
Lockheed (redesignated V-4 in 1962) VZ-11...
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Vulcan Avro 723 – DC-3
replacement Avro 724 –
Project Y;
alternative for
Avrocar, tail-sitting VTOL Avro 725 –
advanced trainer version of Type 720 to OR...
