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Contest Archive-EXPERIMENTAL | Hawkeye's Squawkbox/The Plastic Scale Modeling Hour



​This Wacky Sci-Fi Plane-Helicopter Hybrid Was Totally Almost a Thing

Developed between 1951 and 1953 by a joint research team from the Air Force and Army, working with NASA and Sikorsky Aircraft, the XV-2 (model number S-57) was built to exceed the speed limitations of helicopters without giving up its vertical takeoff and landing capabilities. To do this, the XV-2 would have to employ a "stowed rotor," which would stop, fold, and retract into the fuselage of the delta-wing aircraft as it hit cruising speed. But getting a traditional multi-blade rotor to stop and fold itself into the fuselage proved quite impossible.

Sikorsky XV-2
Sikorsky XV-2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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