AIRCRAFT




	WEIRD AND WONDERFUL AIRCRAFT

		CONVAIR XFY1 POGO

Vertical Flight has long been a dream of aviation designers, but has always been a challenge. It requires an immense amount of power to get off the ground without the benefit of wings, and it was only in the years after World War II that engines of enough power became available; it was then that some truly strange aircraft took to the skies, most notably the *Convair XFY1 “Pogo”* . The XFY1 was a tail-sitter using the most powerful turboprop available in the Western world

SPECIFICATION

XFY1 “POGO”

Type: Single seater experimental Tailsitting Fighter.

PowerPlant: One 4101 km/h Allison YT40-A-6 turboprop.

Maximum Speed: 980km/h at 4500 metres.

Endurance: One hour at 10000m giving an approximate range at economical cruise speed of 650km.

Service Ceiling: 13300m.

Weight: Empty: 5325kg Maximum gross takeoff 7370kg.

Armament:(proposed, never fitted) Four 20mm Cannon or 46 x70mm Mighty Mouse Unguided high explosive rockets.


	Progress on this aircraft to the 7th September 2007 Turboprop & Bodyshell


	Progress to 09 September 2007 Added Wings and Tailplanes Started Cockpit.... Groovy Aircraft!!

This is progress to the 10th September 2007 Added, Landing gear, Stood up in the correct position, and did a first render with Kerkythea .

Completion of cockpit canopy to be completed next then animate the turboprops (Contra rotation)


	Render done 11th September 2007




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