What are some VTOL Aircraft option we seem to have given up on.

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Tilt jet

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Tail sitter

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Jet powered tailsitter

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Doge im Luvin Musk this week!!
,Toooooouuch down and,,,FLOP! BOOOM!!
,,,,
,CHEEEEEER!!! YEEE HA!!! OOO YA!! GO! GO! GO! FIREBIRD!!!! tears.
,,, just, like,, the Good old days.
, soon it will just be,,hohum,, lands back in texas,,, yawn.

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The us tried to field a flying saucer

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My coworker calls this the "VTOL Wheel of Misfortune"

http://vertipedia.vtol.org/vstol/wheel.htm

They haven't given up on that OP it was exploring tilt rotor not exclusively ducts

>>915555
they looked into that with a UAV a few years ago

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Check this out, Russians already copied the F-35!

Wait, they made YAK VTOLs in the 70's and 80's.

>>915561
Fun fact, if you look for the patent for the AvroCar, it was already known that it wouldn't fly.

Whenever someone designs a saucer, they think a lot on how to make it float, but they forget that flying means going to a direction at speed (ruining the floating capability).

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>>916059
>flying means going to a direction at speed (ruining the floating capability)
huh?

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>>915567
Another proud moment in "yeah, this should work" history

>>916059
What the fuck are you talking about? It looks like a GEV, people are still making shit like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5XWWXHVQk

>>916048
Those things were notorious for killing their pilots

>>915551
Meet the Bell XV-3

>>916069
>Those things were notorious for killing their pilots

It was the Soviet Union. Like they gave a shit.

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>915561

urk... it flies!

cyclogyros

no one was able to build a working one until 2011

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>>916146

forgot pic

the idea has been around for at least 90 years, yet inventors only just managed to build tiny remote-controlled models

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Ah, the F-104 VTOL that could've been...

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I've never found out why the Dornier-31 never went into production...looks legit, even used Harrier engines. With the later engines, it could've done away with those extra engine pods. With a fleet of these in the 70s, we may not have bothered building the Osprey. Maybe use 'em in Desert One...nevermind, no aircraft could save that disaster from happening.

>>916148
It doesn't look like a very practical design, just from a user-end standpoint

>>916187
Well, if Wikipedia's to be believed, it generated a ton of drag and was too heavy. It was probably complex as fuckall and a nightmare for maintainers, too.

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>>916187
"NO decissions",, thesign.

>>916048

Lockheed actually worked with Yakovlev to develop the F-35B's lift fan and thrust vectoring system, which explains many of the commonalities.

>>915551
bvr

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I love the look of this goofy thing, it looks like something out of one of those "THE FUTURE IS NOW" magazines from the 50s, and it's a direct ancestor to the V-22