The Bell D-188A VTOL airplane is a horizontal-attitude VTOL fighter with tilting engine nacelles at the tips of a low-aspect-ratio unswept wing and additional engines in the fuselage. The model could be flown smoothly in hovering and transition flight. In forward flight the model could be flown smoothly at the lower angles of attack but experienced an uncontrollable directional divergence at angles of attack above about 16 deg.


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    Title :

    Flight Tests of A 1/8-Scale Model of the Bell D-188A Jet VTOL Airplane


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1959-03-16


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





    Design aspects of bell aircraft VTOL airplane

    O'Malley, Jr., J.A. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1955


    Design aspects of bell aircraft VTOL airplane

    O'Malley, Jr., J.A. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1955