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Payload without penalty—a suggestion for improving the take-off performance of fixed-wing V/STOL aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. R. Taylor
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The ideal of high speed centre-to-centre inter-city air transport remains unrealised with the problems of poor economics and excessive noise dominant and still largely unsolved.

Economics hit particularly hard at VTOL aircraft. Thrust/weight ratios in the order 1·15:1 are necessary with the result that total installed thrust is much larger than is required for the cruise condition and payload and range suffer. It is therefore tempting to compromise and go for a STOL solution and current trends are in this direction.

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Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 79 , Issue 776 , August 1975 , pp. 344 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1975 

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