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Vertically rising aircraft

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• Ground-effect machines
• Short take-off and landing aircraft

• Vertically rising aircraft -- Handling characteristics
• Tilt rotor aircraft

• Vertical rising aircraft
• Vertical take-off and landing aircraft
• VTOL aircraft

• Aerodynamics of a Tilting Ducted Fan Configuration (NASA Technical note D-785; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961), by Paul F. Yaggy and Kenneth W. Goodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Ways: Tiltrotor Aircraft and Magnetically Levitated Vehicles (OTA-SET-507; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• V/STOLAND Avionics System Flight-Test Data on a UH-1H Helicopter (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1980), by Fredric A. Baker, Dean N. Jaynes, Lloyd D. Corliss, Sam Liden, Robert B. Merrick, and Daniel C. Dugan
  • PDF at NASA
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Elements of Propeller and Helicopter Aerodynamics (New York: Pitman Pub. Corp., 1953), by Daniel O. Dommasch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Airmobility, 1961-1971 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1999), by John J. Tolson (PDF at US Army CMH)

• On a Steel Horse I Ride: A History of the MH-53 Pave Low Helicopters in War and Peace (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2012), by Darrel D. Whitcomb (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• A Computer Program for the Determination of the Acoustic Pressure Signature of Helicopter Rotors Due to Blade Thickness (NASA Technical Memorandum X-3323; 1976), by Gerald H. Mall, F. Farassat, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)