Vertical Take-Off Plane Tested
10 p.m.) MOFFETT FIELD (California), . June 2 United States Navy’s radically . XFY-1 vertical take-off fightei J ®ade a successful test flight o: * w feet straight up. inside a huge dirigible hangai Je Navy base here, it flew on : what Consolidated-Vultee Air- • Company officials referred to ai jjhered flight test.” * S perimental Plane, walled the stick” by the Navy, is powerec - r 3 7100 horsepower turbo-proi It lifted the plane straight uy r o3 the roof of the hangar 184 fee' At 60 feet above the floor, the .Pilot brought the plane to a ha! suspended with the six huge propeller blades hold .“.there. S® gently, like a man setting dowr • ee " s - he brought the plane * floor at the rest position—on it: ’’“h its nose pointed skyward.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27367, 4 June 1954, Page 11
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