Too good to keep to myself. Quite honestly I've been trying to figure out how to download this vid of the XC-142A undergoing Operational Suitability Testing. I still can't get it and I've tried Download Helper, a couple of script keys and other add-ons. The Texas Archive of Moving Image and Vought Aircraft Heritage Foundation are my new heroes. Check it out here.
Photos are from the San Diego Air and Space Museum FLICKR page.
I think there are a few videos on Youtube but not sure if it is the one you want
ReplyDeleteThis was a fascinating aircraft and I wonder if modern systems, composites, fly by wire, modern engines and computer aided aerodynamics would change the outcome
A bit like the British Rotodyne, another promising vertical lift design
Heh. But "modern systems, composites, fly by wire, modern engines and computer aided aerodynamics" DID provide a different outcome......the V-22.
ReplyDeleteSol, I have a -142 report in pdf format someplace. If I find it, I'll forward it to you,
not so fast on that SMSGT Mac! this bad boy was about to go into production. as a matter of fact the air force already had a 142B with a conventional nose ready to go...but we were involved in a war and the budget just wouldn't support this effort.
ReplyDeletealso remember that this was built with slide rules alone! had weak engines! but on paper it more than matches the v-22!
but even more than all that its the difference between tilt wing and tilt rotors. i contend that tilt wing is less complex....long story short, if they dusted off the design specs and replaced them with new materials tilt wing could be what tilt rotor isn't.