Convair XFY-1

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Very unique aircraft!

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Meh, I like the aircraft but don’t really want it.

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Helicopter or Fighter or Space Rocket

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VTOL tailsitting fighter.

It is very nice and it has a unique design but I dont really like it so much and I am sure I wont buy it

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Same here.

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Stop posting such useless requests!
As if you wanted that really ! Taxiing with your 321 when suddenly this thing joins at a gate next to you and directly takes vertically off. Dude think before posting, what the hell is going on here

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The vertical takeoff would be a little weird tbh @Overspeed

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WTF! This is a missile with a prop! How cool is that?!

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I see no Landing gear… I say this was the most intelligent little plane I see here.

The hardest plane to land and taxi.

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@Bulba… MaxSez. No gear. It has boogey wheels on its fins. Regards

Very useful in IF right. Lets bring back the Space Shuttle and taxi to 05L at EDDL…

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Cough stolen from the Germans cough. Neat aircraft, but I like the original Triebflugel better.

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@S_Olejniczak… MaxSez: We got Warner von Braun & all the Nazi aircraft/rocket industrial plans & tooling that the Russian did’t get to. To the victor goes the spoils…

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They might’ve been Nazis, but they certainly were pretty technologically smart.

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how does it land???

Tail first on fin caster dollies. UTube has flight test videos. Search “Pogo Stick” aircraft.