Since the successful fielding of Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, there has been a strong desire for such runway independent aircraft that are also capable of very high speed cruising flight. There has been a lot of time and treasure invested in developing and demonstrating these VSTOL aircraft, and several attempts to characterize them culminating in the VSTOL Wheel, but each exhibits specific drawbacks in practice. A new, simple taxonomy has been developed by the presenter and is proposed that is suitably broad to characterize every VSTOL concept suggested, and sufficiently robust to include any in the future. Dan Newman is a Boeing Senior Technical Fellow in Aircraft Configuration Development, and serves as the Chief Engineer for Advanced Vertical Lift, in the Phantom Works Division of Boeing Defense Space & Security.
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