Vought V-173 prototype’s 427 square feet of wing area gave it the capability of taking off nearly vertically with typical wind over a ship’s deck.
It was designed with a low-wing monoplane configuration ... the escort carrier HMS Archer, flew the Vought Chesapeake in operational service while flying from RNAS Lee-on-Solent.
Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky has successfully flown its "rotor blown wing" drone in both helicopter and fixed-wing flight modes ...
The fiscal conservative returns to the post he held in Trump’s first administration.