Image: Lockheed's experimental vertical takeoff plane with temporary wheeled landing gear for initial testing for horizontal takeoffs at Edwards Air Force Base, California, (Archives/Getty Images)
The British Aircraft Corporation was a cancelled Cold War strike and aerial reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation for the Royal Air Force in the late and early
Hiller V/STOL aircraft first flew in Designed with a set of 3 contra-rotating rotors on each side of a large tilting wing. Exhaust directed for attitude control at slow speeds.