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on 2005-Feb-07 14:52:34 Anonymous coward said

martial
The plane no one wanted to test.
on 2005-Apr-22 15:15:32 Anonymous coward said

O2B
They called it the Pogo for a reason
on 2005-May-03 16:37:33 Anonymous coward said

kmac
why bother with something like this?
on 2005-May-09 17:14:29 Anonymous coward said

Nick
you wouldn't want to land that in a strong wind
on 2005-Jun-16 12:24:29 Anonymous coward said

Bri
What a terrible idea, did that engine and prop of enough lift for it anyway, crazy tax money wasting ideas.
on 2005-Oct-08 00:27:49 Anonymous coward said

majlogon
Actually, Lockheed footed the bill. they gave up when the pilot had difficulties with "reverse".
on 2006-Apr-25 22:00:53 Anonymous coward said

Marine57
One similar to this sat at the entrance to Allison in Indianapolis for years. The major problem with this design is that while the wheels were touching the ground, the rudder controls were nearly ineffective, creating an easy aircraft fall-over condition.
on 2006-Jun-14 19:58:56 Anonymous coward said

Mace
Not to mention the problem in seeing where you were landing.
on 2006-Jun-29 16:45:49 Anonymous coward said

mebb
Taking off, cool. Landing, not cool. Taxiing? I don't think so.
on 2006-Sep-10 04:44:30 Anonymous coward said

a320 guy
It had 'normal' landing gear as well.
It had so much power, even at idle, pilots had to perform high-g maneuvers to slow it down for vertical landings, otherwise it would climb too high while bleeding off speed.
on 2006-Sep-10 04:45:37 Anonymous coward said

a320 guy
For vertical landings, the seat partially rotated so the pilot could see over his shoulder without getting a crick in his neck. =8-)
on 2007-Jun-16 18:49:55 Anonymous coward said

g.p.
So this is where they got the idea for the unicycle
on 2007-Jul-28 05:21:45 Anonymous coward said

schwambly
Why bother with this? What made this design useful was what engineers and designers LEARNED from it. It was experimental. Much of what was learned was what did NOT work for VTOL aircraft. It's the way aviation development works.
on 2007-Oct-10 20:52:13 Anonymous coward said

biggs
Normans giant novelty card table and hostess trolly was a big hit at parties
on 2007-Nov-04 02:38:37 Anonymous coward said

Blaster
this hapened in a base with no chopper
on 2008-Mar-12 22:08:23 Anonymous coward said

Tango
Ok, say you land at a remote field somewhere...and there is no one to meet your plane...what do you do? open the canopy and fall the heck out? Then what? (I am glad we learned from this and moved on)
on 2009-Nov-19 22:27:16 Anonymous coward said

roarshock
The Navy was trying to see if they could put fighter planes on ships smaller than an aircraft carrier. Answer: No Way! At least not in the 1950s!

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