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Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. It intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft.
Originally designed as a fighter-like aircraft capable of very high speeds and altitudes, the project was repeatedly scaled back over time and the U.S. Air Force eventually abandoned it. Development was taken up by the U.S. Army to be made into a sort of "flying jeep", able to take off and land vertically and carry troops and armament. In flight testing, the Avrocar proved to have unresolved thrust and stability problems that limited it to a degraded, low-performance flight envelope; subsequently, the project was cancelled in September 1961.




Translating this vehicle into the world of Stormworks, I had to use only one jet engine instead of three. Flying it is very difficult (just like the real one!) due to the slow response of ducted fans. Obviously there's no Coanda effect in SW, so a jet exhaust pointed down provides the lift.

-Fully instrumented pilot and copilot cockpits
-Retractable landing gear (pads)
-Refueling panel