Focke-Wulf Fw 260

The Focke-Wulf Fw 260 Flamingo was a VTOL airliner project designed by Focke-Wulf in the early 1960s, one of a related pair with the Fw 300, and neither aircraft was built. The Fw 260 was shown at the Luftfahrtschau Hanover trade show in 1962. It had a high-mounted, slightly swept wing carrying two pods of two jet engines each for primary thrust, with vectored thrust to help vertical takeoff, and two underwing pods each holding six Bristol Siddeley BS.59 liftjets. It was to carry up to 85 passengers, later revised to 96. At the Paris Air Show in 1963 a model of the Fw 300, a short-haul variant for 48 to 58 passengers with eight lift engines instead of twelve, joined it.