If I recall, this was actually built. It was a working experiment in the early days of VTOL (Vertical TakeOff&Landing). Note the landing gear at the back of each wing. The aircraft would sit on the gear, nose skyward, and the prop would pull it straight up, where it would transition to normal flight. Landings followed a reverse (and I'm sure SCARY) procedure as the aircrafst would slow to almost stall speed and then transition to vertical flight. Judiscious use of the throttle would allow the craft to "settle" down on its tail.
The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter. An experimental vertical takeoff and landing aircraft of the 1950s. The pogo sat on its tail with the props acting like helicopter rotor blades, it would then transition into horizontal flight.
It's the Convair XFY-1 "Pogo" flown by Marine Reserve Lt. Col. (and Convair test pilot) James F. "Skeets" Coleman in 1954-5 at Brown Field in San Diego. The Pogo in now in the National Air and Space Museum collection.
The unconventional, tail-sitting Lockheed XFV-1 was the prototype for a proposed U.S. Navy vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) point-defense interceptor. Designed to take off vertically, transition into conventional wings-level flight and then transition back to the vertical for landing, the airplane was powered by a 5,850 horsepower turboprop engine driving a pair of huge, three-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Fitted with a temporary undercarriage, the XFV-1 was first flown in a conventional mode at Edwards on June 16, 1954. Although, while in flight, it did demonstrate successful transitions from conventional into the vertical mode and back, its engine lacked sufficient power to guarantee safe VTOL operations and the whole concept of tail-sitting aircraft was soon abandoned in favor of designs employing vectored jet thrust.
No not fake. 50's era X plane. This X series included the X1 2 and others.
Notice the landing wheels at the bottom tip on the stabilizers. This was VTOL aircraft. Don't know the X number but it is X for expermintal.
The counter rotating properlers in the nose. Convair in the name of the Aircraft company. Trubo Prop. I have seen old video footage of this taking off.
yes, during ww2 the germans were testing aircraft like this, which used contra-rotating propellers, after the war the US continued using the same engineers. the idea being that smaller navy ships could have vertical take-off aircraft to defend themselves with. idea never caught on as the aircraft were generally too unstable on takeoff and landing.
It is / was real. Was a vtol experiment. Proved to be impractical as the pilot couldn't see as he was landing. I believe it actually flew. I know I saw film of it lifting, hovering, and very gingerly landing.
The Convair XFY-1 was Convair's proposal to fill a US Navy brief which called for a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) interceptor aircraft. By the time Convair XFY-1 Pogo had been developed enough to be a feasible design the US Navy had lost interest in the aircraft, and the project was canceled.
Hello, Enjoy your site very much. The plane pictured is indeed real. It is the Convair XFY-1. It did flu but was quite a hand full. Here is a link to more information about it. Regards, Jim in Eastern Connecticut, USA
It's real. It was supposed to land on it's tail hovering like a helicopter. One of the reasons it went away is that the pilot really couldn't see well enough for that.
Oh, it's real ... a real pilot killer. In 1954 the US Navy funded a project for a (non-carrier) ship-board fighter, to be called the XPV-1. Convair and Lockheed each built prototypes and flew them. They were VTOL (vertical take-off & landing). Harrier, by comparison is an STOL (short, etc). Landing was the b*tch for the poor pilots. Mercifully it was scrapped early.
It's a friggin' Pogo stick VTOL designed by Convair aka XFY Pogo. I remember the thing from a bubble gum card. Wiki says:
The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing. The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a 5,500 hp Allison YT40-A-16 turboprop engine. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter aircraft capable of operating from small warships. Landing the XFY-1 was difficult as the pilot had to look over his shoulder while carefully working the throttle to land.
It's real alright. An experiment in VTOL in the 50s by the US Navy. Called the Pogo. Didn't work very well. The plane had to land on its tail. The pilot had a rear-view mirror to help back the plane down onto its gear.
Real. Convair XFY-1 Pogo. Not to be confused with the Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon. Pogo has a delta wing. Salmon has a straight wing with a cruciform tail. Source: The World's Strangest Aircraft by Michael Taylor.
It's real. Can't remember the model designation, but it was a try at a prop-driven VTOL. From what I remember, it took off very well, but landing was a bitch.
It is real, It was the USAF's first try at a Vertical Takoff and Landing aircraft. It was launched vertically from a derrick contraption that it rose staight up from and then moved forward like a helo until it gained enough speed for the wings to work. (Hence the huge props) Same effort in reverse to land. It really didn't work too well and was abandoned after a few R and D aircraft were built and tested. Still one of those novel "They really built that" aircraft from the 50's and 60's. Nereus
I don't know the technical name for it, but I do remember seeing it in some cable documentary somewhere. It was like an early VTOL test design; it took off and landed vertically, with the prop overhead like a helicopter.
BTW, like the blog. Especially the daily selection of Totty. I enjoy milbogs and other's who have the same view and opinion's of our world going down the collective toilet. Nereus
Yes, it's real. It's a Convair XFY Pogo, an experimental VTOL turboprop, tailsitter, for the US Navy. While technically OK, the pilot had no way of seeing where he was landing. A bit of a problem when your LZ is a small escort, you'll almost certainly land in the water.
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Real. See this link: http://www.aviastar.org/air/usa/convair_pogo.php
Called the Pogo. Was a vertical take off prototype from the 50s.
If I recall, this was actually built. It was a working experiment in the early days of VTOL (Vertical TakeOff&Landing). Note the landing gear at the back of each wing. The aircraft would sit on the gear, nose skyward, and the prop would pull it straight up, where it would transition to normal flight. Landings followed a reverse (and I'm sure SCARY) procedure as the aircrafst would slow to almost stall speed and then transition to vertical flight. Judiscious use of the throttle would allow the craft to "settle" down on its tail.
NORTHCOUNTRY
Yes, it was a vertical take off prop aircraft designed to attack incoming bombers methinks.
The problem with it was it was a bear to land after the mission!
HA I knew it!! Part of a family of early VTOL concept called 'tail-sitters" more info @
http://ttuyup.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/history-of-the-tailsitter-airplanes/
NORTH COUNTRY
Real:
Convair XFY-1 Pogo VTOL FighterI knew I'd seen that guy before.
Convair XFY Pogo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8CTAPa6Yso&feature=related
That's the Convair XFY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Part of a group of planes experimenting with vertical take off for fixed wing aircraft called the "Tailsitters"
Theo, It's a Convair XYF "Pogo", 1954, prototype; never made production. Thanks again for your exceptional blog! Best, DWL
The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter. An experimental vertical takeoff and landing aircraft of the 1950s. The pogo sat on its tail with the props acting like helicopter rotor blades, it would then transition into horizontal flight.
more info:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/xfy-1.htm
It's real. It's an experimental VTOL aircraft. I've got a picture of it somewhere.
There you go - found it..
Convair XFY-1 Pogo VTOL Fighter
Go here
http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/VTOL/USN-XV.htm
It is a real aircraft. Early in the 50's the US was working on a lot of VTOL aircraft. If memory serves this was Curtis or Boeing.
the pic looks similar to the one on wikipedia The Pogo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
It's the Convair XFY-1 "Pogo" flown by Marine Reserve Lt. Col. (and Convair test pilot) James F. "Skeets" Coleman in 1954-5 at Brown Field in San Diego. The Pogo in now in the National Air and Space Museum collection.
It is a Convair XFY from the 1950s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Real, it was an early attempt at a VTOL aircraft.
Called the Convair XFY-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Convair 'Pogo'...experimental VTOL from the early/mid-50's. It was real.
It's a vertical-take-off design; supposed to land on it's tail, nose pointed straight up as well. I think it never got very far. Convair XFY-1 Pogo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
AJ
Here's a vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh9dhBJY010
Real prototype, Pilots had a devil of a time backing down to a cement runway
Convair XFY-1 data:
Convair Pogo. Mid fifties attempt at a fighter that would take off vertically. They actually sort of got it to work.
It's a Convair XFY-1 Pogo (VTOL). Designed in 1950 it was cancelled in 1955.
POWERPLANT:
One Allison YT40-A-6 turboprop
of 5,850 hp (4362 kW)
MAXIMUM SPEED:
610 mph
at 15,000 feet altitude
MAX. TAKEOFF WEIGHT:
16,250 lb (7371 kg) WING SPAN:
27 ft 7¾ in (8.43 m)
LENGTH:
22 ft 11 in (10.66 m)
OPERATIONAL RANGE:
Not known
PROPOSED ARMAMENT:
4x20 mm cannon or
46x70mm (2.75 in) rockets.
looking at the picture again I realize my memor is faulty and it is an aircraft built by Convair, not Boeing or Curtis. Convair is on the tail fin.
It's an XFV-1
The unconventional, tail-sitting Lockheed XFV-1 was the prototype for a proposed U.S. Navy vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) point-defense interceptor. Designed to take off vertically, transition into conventional wings-level flight and then transition back to the vertical for landing, the airplane was powered by a 5,850 horsepower turboprop engine driving a pair of huge, three-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Fitted with a temporary undercarriage, the XFV-1 was first flown in a conventional mode at Edwards on June 16, 1954. Although, while in flight, it did demonstrate successful transitions from conventional into the vertical mode and back, its engine lacked sufficient power to guarantee safe VTOL operations and the whole concept of tail-sitting aircraft was soon abandoned in favor of designs employing vectored jet thrust.
The aircraft is a Pogo figher, type XFY-1
Real as can be: Convair XFY
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY-1
It's real: a Convair XFY.
Convair XFY experimental VTOL aircraft -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY-1
Convair XFY-1.
Google "VTOL".
Real
linky
Convair XFY-1 Pogo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY-1
No not fake.
50's era X plane. This X series included the X1 2 and others.
Notice the landing wheels at the bottom tip on the stabilizers. This was VTOL aircraft. Don't know the X number but it is X for expermintal.
The counter rotating properlers in the nose. Convair in the name of the Aircraft company. Trubo Prop. I have seen old video footage of this taking off.
Later abandoned.
The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
It's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_XFV-1
Convair XFY-1 "Pogo". A prototype vertical takeoff aircraft for carriers.
Real.
Convair XFY
It was an early attempt at a VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) plane.
See the "wheels" coming out of the tips of the wings?
Wikipedia
Convair XFY.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
yes, during ww2 the germans were testing aircraft like this, which used contra-rotating propellers, after the war the US continued using the same engineers. the idea being that smaller navy ships could have vertical take-off aircraft to defend themselves with. idea never caught on as the aircraft were generally too unstable on takeoff and landing.
It is / was real. Was a vtol experiment. Proved to be impractical as the pilot couldn't see as he was landing. I believe it actually flew. I know I saw film of it lifting, hovering, and very gingerly landing.
The Convair XFY-1 was Convair's proposal to fill a US Navy brief which called for a VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) interceptor aircraft. By the time Convair XFY-1 Pogo had been developed enough to be a feasible design the US Navy had lost interest in the aircraft, and the project was canceled.
A discontinued prototype of a vertical take off (VTO) aircraft.
See V22 Osprey for successful project in VTO.
Its real early vertical takeoff experimental plane they could get them to takeoff but had problems landing
yes it is real. XFV-1 POGO http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/xfv-1.htm
Hello, Enjoy your site very much. The plane pictured is indeed real. It is the Convair XFY-1. It did flu but was quite a hand full. Here is a link to more information about it.
Regards, Jim in Eastern Connecticut, USA
It's real; it was one of the first experimental VTOL planes. Didn't work out.
This is real. Early attempt at vertol. Took off like a helo while sitting on its tail.]
Go Chance-Vaught Pogo.
(Checkword elite!)
Looks like a Lockheed XFV-1, an experimental plane that explored the viability of building a prop driven VTOL aircraft.
James
Real- an early attempt at vertical takeoff aircraft.
Real- an early attempt at vertical takeoff aircraft.
Convair XFY-1 "Pogo", similar to the Lockheed XFV-1 "Salmon".
You could start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Convair XFY-1
It looks very much like a Convair XFY-1 Pogo to me. It first flew in 1954 and has a page dedicated to it in the Wikipedia.
It's the XFY-1 "Pogo" experimental VTOL aircraft from the 1950's it was built and rejected
It's real. It was supposed to land on it's tail hovering like a helicopter. One of the reasons it went away is that the pilot really couldn't see well enough for that.
IUt was called the XFY pogo. Here's a wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Oh, it's real ... a real pilot killer. In 1954 the US Navy funded a project for a (non-carrier) ship-board fighter, to be called the XPV-1. Convair and Lockheed each built prototypes and flew them. They were VTOL (vertical take-off & landing). Harrier, by comparison is an STOL (short, etc). Landing was the b*tch for the poor pilots. Mercifully it was scrapped early.
It's a friggin' Pogo stick VTOL designed by Convair aka XFY Pogo. I remember the thing from a bubble gum card. Wiki says:
The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing. The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a 5,500 hp Allison YT40-A-16 turboprop engine. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter aircraft capable of operating from small warships. Landing the XFY-1 was difficult as the pilot had to look over his shoulder while carefully working the throttle to land.
There.
Check the LINK
One of the more interesting airframs out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
Keep up the good totty... err... WORK!
It's real. It is the Lockheed XFV-1. A prototype for a proposed U.S. Navy vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) point-defense interceptor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_XFV
The Convair XFY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
See also the Lockheed XFV, as well as later prototypes trying the same trick with jet engines.
Its a Convair XFY (Pogo Tailsitter) Experimental VTOL fighter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
VTOL Pogo. I think made at Convair, late fifties.
It's real alright. An experiment in VTOL in the 50s by the US Navy. Called the Pogo. Didn't work very well. The plane had to land on its tail. The pilot had a rear-view mirror to help back the plane down onto its gear.
Real. Convair XFY-1 Pogo. Not to be confused with the Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon. Pogo has a delta wing. Salmon has a straight wing with a cruciform tail. Source: The World's Strangest Aircraft by Michael Taylor.
yes it is real Convair XFY-1 Pogo
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/xfv-1.htm
Quite real gents. What you have there is the Convair XFY Pogo.
Convair XFY-1 "Pogo" Tailsitter VTOL Experiment.
It is a VTOL Coursair Vought from the 50s I think.
I don't know if that's a photo or a concept art piece, but it's an X-Plane type that was tested in the '50s, iirc.
The concept was to explore vertical take off planes that had no need of runway for emergency use in air field defense.
http://unrealaircraft.com/gravity/xfy1.php
Yep, in spite of the website name, it was real.
It's real. Can't remember the model designation, but it was a try at a prop-driven VTOL. From what I remember, it took off very well, but landing was a bitch.
It is real, It was the USAF's first try at a Vertical Takoff and Landing aircraft. It was launched vertically from a derrick contraption that it rose staight up from and then moved forward like a helo until it gained enough speed for the wings to work. (Hence the huge props) Same effort in reverse to land. It really didn't work too well and was abandoned after a few R and D aircraft were built and tested.
Still one of those novel "They really built that" aircraft from the 50's and 60's.
Nereus
Real. Experimental VTOL. Too hard to land. Sat on the four posts at the end of the wings with the prop pointing straight up.
I don't know the technical name for it, but I do remember seeing it in some cable documentary somewhere. It was like an early VTOL test design; it took off and landed vertically, with the prop overhead like a helicopter.
BTW, like the blog. Especially the daily selection of Totty. I enjoy milbogs and other's who have the same view and opinion's of our world going down the collective toilet.
Nereus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh9dhBJY010
Vid of it taking off and landing vertically.
Pogo, by Convair; the XFY-1.
Cheers
It is the Convair XFY-1 Pogostick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
That's a Pogo. Vertical take-off and landing.
It's a Pogo .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY
The Convair XFY-1 "Pogo" was a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter that could operate from any deck, not just an aircraft carrier (in theory)
Yes, it's real. It's a Convair XFY Pogo, an experimental VTOL turboprop, tailsitter, for the US Navy. While technically OK, the pilot had no way of seeing where he was landing. A bit of a problem when your LZ is a small escort, you'll almost certainly land in the water.
Yes it is real - go here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY-1
You have too many smart readers, Theo. You'll have to find something more challenging next time.
Is this a winner for most comments?
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Amazing how this got over 90 replies.Whats funny is, since comments are moderated, I bet most of the posts were posted before the first one showed up :p
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