Outline of basic aerial jeep concept employing ducted-propeller principle; advantages are that thrust can be increased for same propeller diameter and power input and that shroud acts as protection to blades; details of Piasecki Model 59-K aerial jeep research vehicle; test results of full-scale ground test rig, and investigation of control reactions by use of synthetic analog methods; taxi and free flight tests; military and civil applications.
Development of Piasecki "sky-car"
SAE -- Paper
SAE Meeting ; 1959 Military
1959
17 pages
Conference paper
English
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