2015/07/24 by Desire Francine G. Fedrigo, Fedrigo, Desire Francine G., Ricardo Gobato +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.06916
15 pages, 13 figures; Cultura Aeronautica, 2011
arxiv created 2015/07/24 · arxiv updated 2015/07/27
One of the most unusual military aircraft programs V / STOL was the Avro VZ-9 "Avrocar". Designed to be a real flying saucer, the Avrocar was one of the few V / STOL to be developed in complete secrecy. Despite significant changes in the design, during flight tests, the Avrocar was unable to achieve its objectives, and the program was eventually canceled after an expenditure of 10 million US dollars between 1954 and 1961. But the concept of a lift fan, driven by a turbojet engine is not dead, and lives today as a key component of Lockheed X-35 Joint Strike Fighter contender. Was held in a data research and information related to Avrocar project carried out during the Second World War, which was directly linked to advances in aircraft that were built after it, and correlate them with the turbo fan engines used today.