Kaman K-16B
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| Type: | Convertible plane |
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The Kaman K-16B was a convertible aircraft equipped with tilt wings made by the American manufacturer Kaman Aircraft Corporation .
The prototype was built in 1959 and basically consisted of a Grumman JRF Goose flying boat . In contrast to other tilt-wing aircraft, the wings could only be tilted up to an angle of 50 ° instead of 90 °. Two General Electric T58 each propelled a propeller with a diameter of 4.58 m. The wing had very large Fowler flaps at the trailing edge , so that the deflected slipstream also contributed to the lift.
The K-16B completed extensive tests on flow properties in the wind tunnel, including at the Ames Research Center in Los Alamos. These tests ran until the project was discontinued in 1962, even before there was a first flight. The prototype can be seen today in a museum in the USA.
Web links
literature
- Steve Markman, Bill Holder: Straight up - a history of vertical flight , Schiffer Military History Book, 2000, ISBN 0-7643-1204-9 , pp. 26-28
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard Bridgman (Ed.): Jane's All The World's Aircraft - 1959-60 , 1959, p. 321