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Some VTOL Powerplant Design and Development Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. O. Davies  and
J. F. Coplin
D. O. Davies
Affiliation:
Rolls-Royce Ltd
J. F. Coplin
Affiliation:
Rolls-Royce Ltd
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As the first British jet-powered aircraft was prepared for its maiden flight almost 25 years ago, the late Dr. A. A. Griffith, then Chief Scientist of Rolls-Royce Ltd, was exercising his mind on the problem of aircraft taking off and landing vertically using jet lift. The lightweight lift jet engines of compact dimensions he predicted are now being produced. Since his classic paper on VTOL to the Aeronautical Research Council in 1941 many of the difficult engineering problems have been overcome and we are now on the threshold of a most exciting era during which we shall see operational V/STOL aircraft using jet lift.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 671 , November 1966 , pp. 977 - 986
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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Based on the Main Lecture and Eleventh Henson and Stringfellow Lecture given at the Yeovil Branch of the Society on 10th February 1966. Part I was given by Mr. Coplin and Part H by Mr. Davies.

* Actual RB 162 composite material components have been described in a paper by J. F. Coplin, “Lift Jet Installational Experience,” given to the AIAA in November 1965.