Naval Fighters Number Twenty-Seven Convair XFY-1 Pogo

Naval Fighters Number Twenty-Seven Convair XFY-1 Pogo image
ISBN-10:

0942612272

ISBN-13:

9780942612271

Released: Jan 01, 1994
Publisher: Naval Fighters
Format: Paperback, 34 pages
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Description:

In 1947, both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy sponsored VTOL design studies called project Hummingbird. The rapid development of increasingly powerful powerplants had reached the point where a true VTOL aircraft was in the realm of possibility. The U.S. Navy's firsthand experiences with Japan's Kamikaze taught them the vulnerability of their great mobile peacekeepers, the carrier. Because of this experience the Navy felt that the only way to protect any naval presence in enemy waters was to equip all ships with a VTOL fighter.












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