IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Between 1955 and 1958, the Air Force ...

Gyronautics company Skyworks is teaming up with Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites to build a prototype of its VertiJet vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft, the companies announced Monday ...

Key Points and Summary - The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was the Air Force’s 1950s answer to runway vulnerability: a tail-sitting jet that hovered on thrust, transitioned to level flight, and recovered by ...

A long-term dream of airplane designers, the jet-powered vertical take-off plane, became an official reality last week. The Air Force announced that Ryan Aeronautical Co. has test-flown successfully ...

The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was an experimental aircraft built to test vertical takeoffs and landings ...

Skyworks Global and Scaled Composites will offer their VertiJet gyrodyne aircraft for one of the US Army’s various Future Vertical Lift (FVL) competitions, according to an executive. John Michel, ...

Spirit AeroSystems’ units in Northern Ireland and Scotland have tentatively agreed to collaborate with Skyworks Aeronautics on the design of the latter’s proposed VertiJet vertical take-off and ...

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The X-13 was developed in the 1950s, at a time when aerospace research was perhaps at its most fervent. Summary and Key Points: The Ryan X-13 Vertijet was a pioneering aircraft developed in the 1950s ...

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