Not Enough Lift When Needed
Credit: VOUGHT AIRCRAFT
I read with interest Virgil H. Soule’s letter “Bring Back Tilt Wing Concept” (AW&ST May 26, p. 12), in which he says the tilt wing had advantages over the tiltrotor concept regarding wing and rotor disc-loading. However, beyond the wing/disc-loading performance discussion, the NASA data gathered in...
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