Word: wingtips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell's convertiplane will resemble a conventional airplane with helicopter rotors spinning above each wingtip. After it is in the air, the rotors will be tilted 90° forward, thus turning into propellers to fly the craft like an airplane. When the time comes to land, the rotors will return to the helicopter position. Bell believes that the changeover can be accomplished safely and in only a few seconds...
...bombers-the Canberra is basically a handsomely cleaned-up version of traditional designs, with a wing that looks fairly conventional to the man on the ground. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, it is rated at a top speed above 600 m.p.h., can be fitted with wingtip tanks to extend its range. The Canberra was designed as a high-altitude radar bomber, can also perform all normal fighter maneuvers, and has shown possibilities as a low-level ground support plane. Said Pilot Callard: "A most docile aircraft-it's so easy...