"Joe Delphi" wrote:

"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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"Diamond Jim" wrote:


Probably a lot longer than you're indicating (or that you
know!)...it seems most odd that it's NEVER mentioned in any info
I've seen but this aircraft was designed and flown by Canadair in
Montreal in the EARLY SIXTIES!...it was known as the CL-84
Dynavert. First flew in 1965.
http://tinyurl.com/rk2tj


And then in the 1970s Bell designed and built the XV-15 tilt rotor
demonstration aircraft for NASA research.

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/Photo/XV-15/index.html


JD

The XV-15 did not tilt the wing (only the engine pods at the
wingtips) as both the CL-84 and the V-22 do.


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-Gord.
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