Spike Jones wrote:
>
> I thought of a maneuver that might make it safer to land, altho
> it might not be so comfortable to the passengers: as the pilot
> approaches the landing, she would pull it up vertical and hold
> it until the upward velocity reached zero, with the nose straight
> up. Then keeping the props horizontal, the pilot rotates the
> fuselage to horizontal, and gradually settles to the deck, thereby
> avoiding the risk of what has evidently crunched two ospreys:
> lost lift because of rotating with too much forward velocity.
>
> Wouldnt that work?
Its been done. There was both Air Farce and Navy programs in the 50s &
60's which developed jets, I beleive one was called the Pogo or the Dart
or something like that. They did get it to work fine, and the one with a
big nose rotor worked well in takeoff and landing, but the jet based
ones were unstable and tricky to maneuver when one is going backwards,
with nothing but sky for visual references, to land.
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