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XV-5A Vertifan
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vertical takeoff aircraft
- In helicopter: Fixed jet
The Ryan XV-5A Vertifan used a jet engine to drive horizontally mounted fans in the nose and wing; it was nominally successful. Another type of fixed jet used separate batteries of jet engines, some dedicated to vertical flight and some to horizontal flight, but this expensive technology…
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