Strange aircrafts...(Tailsitters)

A tailsitter is a type of VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) aircraft that launches and lands on its tail.

One example of this kind of aircrafts is the Convari XFY-1 (Pogo), which is also the faster Turboprop* aircraft.



*(only in the theoretical world, the faster Turboprop ever made is the Tu-114)

Another example of this kind of aircrafts is the Lockheed (this guys are in all the strange topics)



More at:
VTOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTOL

Tailsitter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailsitter

Pogo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY-1

Lockheed XFV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_XFV

Another famous Tailsitter, the X-13:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-13_Vertijet

Tu-144, the comercial version of the famous Tu-95:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu-114

Always is recommended to make a visit at Loockheed Martin webpage:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/

Did you know...(Victor airways)

...that Victor (V in aeronautical alphabet) airways connect VOR, VORTAC, and VOR/DME stations and are predicated on VOR signals?


Read at:

FAA TI 8200.52 page 11-6 - Flight Inspection Handbook
http://www.avn.faa.gov/content/fioo/pdf/TI_8200-52wChg1.pdf

Aeronautical alphabet:
http://www.webaviation.online.fr/learning/morse_en.php3

Did you know...(NAVAIDs)

...that the aircrafts are able to surf the skies or do an accurate approach to the airport due to some kind of radio-beacon navigation aids (NAVAIDs)?

Some of them are: NDB, VOR, VOR/DME, DME, ILS and MLS.

learn more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAVAID
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DME
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS

If you want more info, please, ask me with a comment.

Did you know...

Much of the things that I found and I want to share with all of you are very long to write (or aren't long enough to write a post) so I procrastinate them.
My way to avoid procrastinating this kind of things is this section, where I'm going to explain things with a sentence or two and I would place here (as I ussualy do) from where I take the info.