Avro Canada Vz-9 Avrocar

By Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Aircraft Ltd. (Canada) as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War. The Avrocar intended to exploit the Coandă effect to provide lift and thrust from a single "turborotor" blowing exhaust out the rim of the disk-shaped aircraft to provide anticipated VTOL-like performance. In the air, it would have resembled a flying saucer. Two prototypes were built as "proof-of-concept" test vehicles for a more advanced USAF fighter and also for a U.S. Army tactical combat aircraft requirement. In flight testing, the Avrocar proved to have unresolved thrust and stability problems that limited it to a degraded, low-performance flight envelope; subsequently, the project was cancelled in September 1961.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5510563354
• ISBN13: 9785510563351
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"