Approach used in comparison stresses cost consideration and military usefulness; it is concluded that VTOL aircraft having greatest promise are fixed-wing tilting-prop-rotor type (XV-3), and compound helicopter (McDonnell XV-I and Fairey Rotodyne).
Comparison of helicopter with V/STOL airplanes
Am Helicopter Soc -- J
American Helicopter Society -- Journal ; 5 , n 3
1960
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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