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The Canadair CL-84 Tilt-Wing V/STOL Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

F. C. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Canadair Limited

Extract

In 1956 the Defence Research Board of Canada and Canadair Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation), agreed to sponsor jointly a study of V/STOL technology to determine the configuration of aircraft best suited to the support of ground forces. During the following year it was decided that for the transport role the tilt-wing/slipstream-deflection concept promises the best aircraft from the overall point of view. Subsequent analysis and flight experience have confirmed this, and have also demonstrated a high degree of compatibility between aircraft attributes and general requirements for support of surface forces.

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Supplementary Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1969 

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