The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is one of many attempts made after World War II to devise a practical Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) combat aircraft. The British finally succeeded with the ...
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The Jet That Tried to Land on Its Tail… And Nearly Killed Its Pilot
Before the F-35, the U.S. tested tail-sitting fighters, rocket-powered “wheels of death,” and flying platforms that hovered ...
1954: A Convair XFY-1 Pogo aircraft makes a vertical takeoff and landing. It’s a milestone in the checkered history of VTOL aircraft. Using designs captured from the Germans, the Navy and the newly ...
Carrying 48 rockets and the most powerful engine of its type outside the Soviet bloc, this buzzy little fighter could fly just as fast and pack a punch as the earlier fighter jets of post war world ...
At Moffett Field, near San Francisco, the Convair XFY-1 last week made its first public test flight, inside a blimp hangar. Nicknamed “the Pogo Stick,” the XFY-1 is the Navy’s vertical-takeoff fighter ...
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