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Ryan Aeronautical’s Vertiplane used thrust directed downward by huge wide-span flaps to achieve near-vertical takeoff. Nearly 60 years ago I was a member of the Ryan Aeronautical team that created a little-known short take- off and landing aircraft, the VZ-3 Model 92 Vertiplane, for the U.S. Army. It was an era when any conceivable idea …
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