DOAK VZ-4

[dy031101]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doak_VZ-4





I was never awared of this experimental plane before.

Once again, I am thinking of a missileer development- revised airframe with retractable landing gears, a compact radar (Sea Vixen?), and four to six AMRAAM-D or Meteor?

[Kerick]

Looks like the perfect escort gunship for the V-22!

[finsrin]

Looks like the perfect escort gunship for the V-22!

Sure does  :)
Especially in a styrene air force.

Stick with fixed gear for lighter, simpler, less expensive ?
Need retracting to stay with or ahead of V-22 top speed ?

[Rickshaw]

Anigrand do a model of it.

[LemonJello]

Anigrand do a model of it.

Bah! Wrong scale.

It does look pretty cool, I like the ducted fans.

[elmayerle]

To escort the V-22, you'd probably need retracting gear since it does.  Along these lines, perhaps a Bell AX-22 as an escort?  Again, ducted fans tilted for vstol operations.

[Weaver]

Anigrand do a model of it.

Bah! Wrong scale.

It does look pretty cool, I like the ducted fans.

Therse may be of interest to you then:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28009.0/highlight,mushroom.html

Some of the bigger fans are probably right for 1/48th.

[LemonJello]

Therse may be of interest to you then:

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28009.0/highlight,mushroom.html

Some of the bigger fans are probably right for 1/48th.

Bookmarked for future procurement - Thanks!

[Kerick]

To escort the V-22, you'd probably need retracting gear since it does.  Along these lines, perhaps a Bell AX-22 as an escort?  Again, ducted fans tilted for vstol operations.

I was thinking of something like an A-10 fuselage with straight or slightly swept wings with two ducted fans. Would an aircraft like this even need flaps and such? I can see control surfaces for high speed level flight.

[dy031101]

Another idea: maybe using MB-326 or -339 fuselage as a starting point?

[Weaver]

Take any helo gunship fuselage sans engines and stick a plank wing across the top of the fuselage where the rotor head used to be. The old Italeri tandem-Hokum would be good because it's pretty streamlined and doesn't immediately look like any real helo.

[GTX_Admin]

Doak VZ-4 VTOL Aircraft "Army R and D Progress Report 1" 1960 US Army