Avrocar Flight Evaluation, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, Air Force Systems Command, United States Airforce

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Avrocar Flight Evaluation, Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, Air Force Systems Command, United States Airforce

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4521

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Report - Technical

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This report covers the flight evaluation of the Avrocar and includes an abstract of the report contents which provides a Description of the Aircraft, Test results, Conclusions, Recommendations and Appendix. The section Test Results provides (describes) Cockpit Evaluation, Engine Start and Take -Off, Hover, Level Flight, Asymmetric Power and Effects of Unprepared Irregular Terrain. FTC-TDR-61-56 United States Air Force, U.S. Army VZ-9AV. Colonel Charles Yeager approved the report on behalf of Clayton L. Peterson, Colonel, USAF, Director Flight Test. This document was obtained under a Freedom of Information Act Request dated August 17, 1999.

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Date / Time Period: 1962-Jan Pages: 27 Author: Wallace H Deckert , Walter J. Hodgson