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Development of the Tilt-Wing Aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

John B. Nichols
John B. Nichols*
Affiliation:
Hiller Aircraft Company
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The author accepted the invitation to present this paper on the rash assumption that he would be able to present something new and useful on the tilt-wing. The Hiller Company (in partnership with Vought and Ryan) was the first to have received a fully-fledged development contract for evaluation quantities of any VTOL machine. The VHR-447 which was selected as the Army, Navy and Air Force XC-142A was a culmination of almost ten years of effort spent in the investigation and promotion of the tilt-wing “propello-plane” VTOL aircraft concept.

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Rotorcraft Section
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 67 , Issue 630 , June 1963 , pp. 361 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1963

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