For horizontal flight, the nozzles are directed rearwards by shifting the lever to the forward position; for short or vertical takeoffs and landings, the lever is pulled back to point the nozzles downwards.
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The craft would then tilt over to conventional horizontal flight and lift would be provided by cyclic pitch variation of the rotor wings, with the wing tip ramjets now angled to provide thrust.
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They will utilize a 1 / 3-1 / 2 scale model that will be tested at different fan and tunnel speeds and duct angles to represent the transition between vertical and horizontal flight.
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Again, I emphasize that this is a very naive back-of-the-envelope estimate, but it could be a method to compare dives to horizontal flight . talk ) 01 : 57, 10 August 2014 ( UTC)
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In June, XP831 attained another milestone in the program when it performed the first transition from vertical hover to horizontal flight, initially flying the length of Dunsford's runway at a height of 50 meters.
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Another approach proposes a tailsitter configuration in which the lifting surfaces act as a rotors during takeoff, the craft tilts over for horizontal flight and the rotor stops to act as a fixed wing.
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*1958 First full transition from vertical flight to horizontal flight of The Vertol VZ-2 ( or Model 76 ), US research aircraft built to investigate the tiltwing approach to vertical take-off and landing.
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The leading-and trailing-edge engines then convert internally, without pivoting, to horizontal flight and the craft remains airborne because the shape of the disk splits the airflow and creates lift just as an aircraft wing does.
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At 17 : 03, the plane made a turn to the left, put in horizontal flight, and aligned to prepare for landing, when it crashed into the back of the embankment of the Basilica of Superga.
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The idea of using the same engine for vertical and horizontal flight by altering the path of the thrust led to the Bristol Siddeley Pegasus engine which used four rotating nozzles to direct thrust over a range of angles.
