Blue Sky

Dutch Officer Petty Officer, 1st Class Sergeant, 1940-1945

Luitenant ter Zee 3e Klasse in tropical uniform Similar uniform in khaki for fatigue wear, 1940-1945

Curtiss-Wright X-19 VTOL Experimental Aircraft Length : 12.83m Wing Span (Front) : 5.94m Wing Span (Rear) : 6.55m Hight : 5.21m Wing Area (Front) : 5.21 Square meter Wing Area (Rear) : 9.15 Square meter All-Up Weight : 6,196Kg Empty Weight : 4,568Kg Engine : Lycoming T55-L-5 Turbo Shaft (1,850shp) X 2 Max Speed : 730Km/h Service Ceiling : 7,800m Range : 523Km Crew : 2 + 6

This is the "Buzzards LPA" patch for the 510th Fighter Squadron that flies the Viper out of Aviano Air Base, Italy. This patch too is VERY colorful and includes velcro.

Nord 500 S/VTOL Experimental Aircraft

Dutch KNIL Private, NEI 1942*

Mi dici tenendo conto del periodo in cui è stato concepito cos'è che ha di particolarmente strano? Bell ATV (Air Test Vehicle) Bell VTOL Experimental Vehicle in 1954.

Curtiss-Wright X-100 VTOL Experimental Aircraft

Dragon Lady

This is the "Buzzards LPA" patch for the 510th Fighter Squadron that flies the Viper out of Aviano Air Base, Italy. They were forward deployed to a Turkish base in support of the operations. This patch too is VERY colorful and depicts the young characters of the "South Park" television show.

Fairchild VTOL research 1960

Quoto Kit, in effetti potresti rimettere le immagini in un formato più grande, per apprezzare al meglio i tuoi ultimi progressi! GRAZIE!

Saunders-Roe S50

B-17 Nose!

This is the "purple" version of the "Viper Sandy" Supersonic Saviours patch for the 510th Fighter Squadron that flies the Viper out of Aviano Air Base, Italy. They were forward deployed to a Turkish base in support of the operations. This patch too is VERY colorful. Awesome!

US sailor uniform, 1941

This is the Allied Force patch for the 510th Fighter Squadron that flies the Viper out of Aviano Air Base, Italy. Yet another awesome patch!

Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH The VTUAV program is the most recent chapter in the Navy’s surprisingly long history of UAV systems, and the culmination of over 10 years of VTOL UAV development. The Navy’s first operational VTOL UAV system was the remotely piloted helicopter QH-50 DASH, or Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter (see Figure 1). First introduced into operational service in January 1963, the QH-50 was designed to give surface warships standoff Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) attack capabilities through the use of a drone torpedo delivery platform. The DASH was piloted via radar by an officer located in a destroyer’s Combat Information Center (CIC) to the suspected location of an enemy submarine, where it would drop its payload of one Mk-46 or two Mk-44 torpedoes. The drone would then be flown back to the ship, provided it survived the sudden change in the configuration of the helicopter after the payload was dropped; over 400 were lost in operational use. Nearly 800 of all four QH-50 variants were delivered to the Navy between 1960 and 1969. Most QH-50s were withdrawn from service in the 60s; however, several were used as unmanned reconnaissance drones in the Vietnam War, and continue to serve today at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for the US Army Strike Command.

American soldier, early 1942

This is the Bosnia patch for the 510th Fighter Squadron that flies the Viper out of Aviano Air Base, Italy. It has the "timeless" mottos across the top and bottom. Awesome patch!

??? SkyTote - the VTOL UAV that transitions into horizontal flight April 8, 2006 One of the greatest difficulties with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is that they invariably don’t have high speed as one of their attributes. The principles are well explained in our article about the Cartercopter, and it’s one of the prime reasons the US military has persisted with the V-22 Osprey. There has been much emphasis on the development of new unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in recent times, and development imperatives have often been torn between the various needs for UAVs that can quickly move from target to target yet loiter as a fixed and stable platform, all the while operating with no launch and retrieval infrastructure. One of the planet's most innovative companies, Aerovironment, has proposed an innovative configuration known as the Skytote to meet all of these needs. The SkyTote is a novel UAV using dual counter rotating propellers that will take off and land vertically like a helicopter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter , but also transition into horizontal flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight like a conventional aircraft for efficient point-to-point operation. This complex vehicle uses an intricate drive system to allow helicopter operations with cyclic and collective control, as well as blade pitch control, combined with normal aircraft control surfaces in conventional flight operations United States Air Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_force Research Laboratory scientists are working on the novel SkyTote whose primary mission is to deliver a payload to a specific point within a tactically relevant range and time. It is a Small Business Innovative Research Phase II effort orchestrated by AeroVironment for AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate. According to AFRL's Tom Cord, SkyTote program manager, the aircraft is a concept demonstrator and not a working system. "We are not trying to reach a certain performance and capability; we are trying to show that a hovering UAV with a fast, forward speed is a likelihood. It's something we can do in a simple way," he said. Researchers are hopeful that after careful analysis and testing, SkyTote will become a safe, inexpensive and reliable choice for assessing bomb damage and conducting resupply missions or helping with emergency troop evacuations. The SkyTote combines the vertical takeoff, and landing and hover capabilities of helicopters with the high-speed cruise capability of a fixed-wing aircraft. Counter-rotating rotors with individual cyclic control provide propulsion. Propulsion and transition from wing to propeller flight are some of the major technical challenges in this effort. Because of the cyclic control, SkyTote looks like a helicopter when it is flying in helicopter mode. When it is flying like an airplane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane! , the helicopter propeller-rotor system functions more like a propeller. "It's not a great rotor or propeller; it's a good compromise between a helicopter rotor system and an airplane propeller, and that's part of what we are trying to show is that this system will work well for this type of airplane,” Mr. Cord said. “When you look at the design parameters, you either go one way or the other. When you start to blend the two systems together, it becomes challenging. That is one of the big areas we have addressed during the past few years." Researchers have been working on various versions of the SkyTote since 1998. It was smaller then with a design meant to deliver a 400-pound payload to a point within a 300-mile range in less than two hours. During the initial design phase, the vehicle was redesigned from the original 2-foot to an 8-foot vehicle to make it more realistic and usable for customers. The new test vehicle was altered to carry a 50-pound payload within 150 nautical miles because researchers believed a medium-sized vehicle would be a more representative test of technology and would be directly useful to customers. Mr. Cord said these characteristics cannot be met by conventional helicopters and fixed-wing vehicles.

This is the desert version of the CSAR patch for the 510th Fighter Squadron that flies the Viper out of Aviano Air Base, Italy. It depicts that they are an essential part of the Combat Search and Rescue role.

US Army Pilot, 77th Pursuit Squadron, 1941