Sexy prototype German transport aircraft.....Senkrechtstarter

[Reschke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3YueCf1JeI&feature=player_embedded#!

[ZetaNine]

I don't care what anyone says.......I'll never forgive those Greman bastiches for what they did to us at pearl harbor.

[dkff49]

I don't care what anyone says.......I'll never forgive those Greman bastiches for what they did to us at pearl harbor.

 

That is a pretty interesting plane there. I didn't know that they were anywhere near that close to vertical takeoff by that time.

[tmetal]

I wonder if she could still jump like that when max loaded.

[badhorse]

I don't care what anyone says.......I'll never forgive those Greman bastiches for what they did to us at pearl harbor.

yeah, and when they burned the capital in 1812

[Shuffler]

Hmm youtube link and no explanation. IN

[Lusche]

 

That is a pretty interesting plane there. I didn't know that they were anywhere near that close to vertical takeoff by that time.

By that time? It's a contemporary to the Harrier, both had their maiden flight in the same year.

[oakranger]

yeah, and when they burned the capital in 1812

Actually, a small unit of Germans Hessian where there. 

[dkff49]

By that time? It's a contemporary to the Harrier, both had their maiden flight in the same year.

I was not aware of that. I thought the majority of it was done in the mid 80's. Goes to show what I know about aircraft time-line. 

[MiloMorai]

By that time? It's a contemporary to the Harrier, both had their maiden flight in the same year.

And ~7 years behind the first flight of the P.1127 and ~3 years behind the Kestral.

[Rino]

     I thought I'd seen something like that before.  At the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson.
The Bell Textron XV-3

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10326