Word: vertijet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named the Vertijet. is a small, delta-winged job that takes off from a suspended position, hanging from a framework like a bat. Last week Test Pilot Peter F. Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level...
Secret VTOL. Nothing has been released about Ryan's X-13 "Vertijet" which is still a highly classified project. But the technical public got a quick look at it when it was shipped to Edwards, carefully wrapped (see cut). Airplane-industry gossip has been swapping bits of information about it ever since...