FutureWarTHINK011: TILT-WINGS: What the U.S. ARMY Should be Buying--NOT More Crap, Slow Helicopters!
48 resin parts
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Vac-formed canopy & Decal
Length 246 mm (11 inches)
Aircraft History and Specification
In 1950's, many V/STOL aircraft were built and evaluated by the U.S. military services. Few of the concepts were deemed to have the operational capabilities. Base on these prototypes experiences, the new V/STOL assault transport program was announced. In 1961, a request for proposal of the large cargo airplane was released by Tri-services. Ling-Temco-Vought was awarded, with Hiller and Ryan serving as subcontractors, a contract for five XC-142. It was powered by four turbo-shaft engines. The wing could tilt through 100 degrees. The fuselage was designed to carry 32 troops or 4 tons cargo. [EDITOR: like a Wiesel light tankette] It made first flight in 1964, followed by trails of cargo flights, paratrooper drops, desert/mountain rescue and carrier operations. The five XC-142 were flown a total 420 hours. Performance was not as good as expected [EDITOR: 4x as fast as crap helicopters!, WTFO?]. Four of them were damaged in hard landings. The program was ended in 1966 [EDITOR: killed by Army rotorhead fucktards who can't pull Gs who want to stay in their 100 mph comfy zone], one XC-142 was turned over to NASA for research tests until 1970.
Type: VTOL cargo transport aircraft
Purpose: To demonstrate tilt-wing configuration for large cargo volume
Span: 67ft.6in.
Length: 58ft.2in.
Height: 25ft.8in.
Engine: 4x General Electric T64-GE-1 turbo-shaft
Max.speed: 431 mph
Crew: 2
Armament:None [EDITOR: easily could/should be a 30mm nose cannon)
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The new U.S. ARMY TILT-WING transport should carry modular, detachable pods. Cleverly make the pods towable by ground vehicles or attached to an even larger USAF XC-120-like Pack Plane as LTG Gavin KIWI pods. TILT-WINGs like the XC-142 but turbofan-powered for low Radar Cross Section (RCS) stealth compared to props/propfans.
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