Abstract of convertible aircraft,—A statement and discussion of the problem

✍ Scribed by R.S. Barnaby; S.M. Berkowitz; W.H. Colcord

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1949
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 73 KB
• Volume: 247
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(49)90628-6

✦ Synopsis

aircraft are aircraft in which the essential features of the airplane and the helicopter are combined in the hope of providing in one craft the high speed, stability, maneuverability, and fuel economy of the former with vertical ascent and descent, slow speed, and hovering ability of the latter. Such craft may be divided into two general classes.