Silhouette challenge

[Lightning Mate]

My silhouette is a proposed German VTOL fighter project which was to be developed from a VTOL research jet that first flew in 1963

That's how I read it - it flew.

[RegDep]

Sorry Graeme, I have nothing to post.

I must take a sabbatical from winning challenges and take the time to learn how to make some . Open House I guess.

Yes, the 101 C flew, see Wiki

The VJ 101C X-1 flew 40 aerodynamic flights, 24 hover flights and 14 full transitions. During these tests the sound barrier was broken, for the first time by a vertical take-off aircraft, but on 14 September 1964 a defect in the autopilot caused a crash. On July 29, 1964 the VJ 101 C flew at Mach 1.04 without use of an afterburner.

Edit to say that it did not merely "fly" but flew. I had quickly read that it had crashed, and did not realize that it had this impressive flying record.....

[Lightning Mate]

I must take a sabbatical from winning challenges and take the time to learn how to make some

One of your better ideas mate.

[Noyade]

My silhouette is a proposed German VTOL fighter project which was to be developed from a VTOL research jet that first flew in 1963.

Hmmm. Well I tried. D was the proposed. C (research) flew in 1963. No?

[Lightning Mate]

Dunna matter mate - great challenge and clues were really needed (at least for me).

There are no doubts that mine is airborne.

[Noyade]

Yes, read it over again. Ambiguous.

David, is yours the one where the prop blades lie flush with the nose and then spin out as needed for powered flight?

Swore I've seen that somewhere...

[Noyade]

Stemm S10....?

Edit...Swipe that, the Stemm has a T-tail

[Lightning Mate]

I've got a photo of it shut down on the ground and the blades are in the normal flight position, so I don't think they folded.

Crossed posts - not the Stemm mate.

[Lightning Mate]

The Stemm 10 has a T-tail and we've had it before - I think I posted it.

Wanna see the picture of it on the ground?

[Noyade]

Wanna see the picture of it on the ground?

Yeah, why not.

[Lightning Mate]

Here you go then, and it ain't a toy!.

[Lightning Mate]

Wanna nuther clue?

[Noyade]

Wanna nuther clue?

Sure........

[Lightning Mate]

Hawks and eagles are good at thermalling........

[Noyade]

I gathered that.

Now, how about that clue you promised?

[Lightning Mate]

"Hawks and eagles glide on currents of rising warm air called thermals to extend their flight time without needing more fuel".

[Noyade]

Minutes from midnight.

Right. The "Toys are Us" thingy...purpose?

Reconnaissance, military?
Atmosphere sampling?
Highway monitoring camera?

None of the above?

[Lightning Mate]

Look at my last post.

Goggle is your friend......

[Noyade]

Autonomous Soaring Project

? ..................

[Lightning Mate]

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