Experimental machines built in the 1950s and 1960s to test vertical takeoff and landing, by tilting ducts, jet thrust or tail-sitting flight. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the aircraft an experimental VTOL, V/STOL or vertical takeoff aircraft. It excludes conventional research aircraft and helicopters. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Bell X-22 (Wikipedia)
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The Bell X-22 is an American V/STOL X-plane with four tilting ducted fans.
Ryan X-13 Vertijet, Wikipedia
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The Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) is an experimental tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet aircraft built by Ryan Aeronautical and flown in the United States in the 1950s.
Bell X-14, Wikipedia
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The Bell X-14 (Bell Type 68) is an experimental VTOL aircraft flown in the United States in the 1950s.
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