Originally posted by masterofpuppets
lol that x-50 is something else. i wonder what it could be practically used for???
Everything.
There trying to combine a plane with a helicopter.
It takes of verticaly like a helicopter then its starts picking up speed then around 150 mph - 200 mph it would change the jet engines thrust from the
rotor blade to be a normal jet aircraft, and the rotor blade would stop spinning and lock into place to become the wing. The propulsion for the rotor
blade is the vectored thrust coming out of the ends of the blade. If they can get this down right with it working good it would put other private jet
companies out of business, and there are countless ways the military could use it.
Heres a pic of the civilian version
[edit on 20-9-2004 by Murcielago]