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Hovering-flight tests of a model of a transport vertical-take-off airplane with tilting wing and propellers

Powell M Lovell, L. P. Parlett

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Report presenting an investigation of the take-off, landing, and hovering-flight characteristics of a four-engine transport vertical-take-off airplane with tilting wing and propellers using a remotely controlled free-flight model. The model had four propellers distributed along the wing with the thrust axes in the wing-chord plane.

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Key concepts: Wing, Airplane, Chord (peer-to-peer), Aerospace engineering, Wing configuration, Thrust, Wing loading, Engineering