Verticraft Verticar - Wingless VTOL Transport Aircraft with Airfoil Fuselage

[jzichek]

Check out this article at RetroMechanix.com on the Verticraft Verticar, a wingless VTOL aircraft with an airfoil-shaped fuselage submitted to the Navy in connection with the Tri-Service Assault Transport competition of 1961:



The accompanying gallery features several high resolution photos and drawings of both the single and two-duct versions of the Verticar.

-Jared

[RussC]

Wow! that's an odd one. It looks like some of those early Burnelli flying wing designs from the 30's magazines and leads seamlessly into the 1970's facetplane or facetmobile designs.