Short take-off and vertical landing; a close look at an historical technical breakthrough.

From: Armada International | Date: October 1, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

Short Take-off and Vertical Landing

A Close Look at an Historic Technical Breakthrough

Vertical take off was not really a new idea. At the beginning of the 1940s, the Germans developed the Bachem 339 Natter, a rocket-engined fighter which took off from a tower just like the Space Shuttle with the help of four solid propellant boosters and was recovered by parachute. Not until the emergence of the jet engine was the concept revived.

From the end of the 1950s onwards, there was a blossoming of several exotic designs whose main merit was to clarify the problem and to ...

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