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... three or even 30 orbits. ''(Macomber, Copley News Service, San Diego Union, 1/13/65)'' XC-142A V/Stol, flown by Ling-Temco-Vought test pilots John Konrad and Stuart Madison, made ... flight, and then circled the field, reversed the process, and made a vertical landing. The XC-142A's first transition flight came only six flights after its initial hover flight on Dec ...

... . The three services were sharing equally in funding, support, and evaluation of the X-19 , XC­142A , and the X-22A experimental aircraft. ''(AFSC Opera­tional Highlights, 12)'' August 1963 August Aug ...

... encountered by operational aircraft of the hingeless rotor type. ''(NASA Release 64-147: LARC Release)'' XC-142A V/STOL aircraft, built by Ling-Temco-Vought for the Army, USN, and USAF, was ...

... U.S. Army Engineers. ''(FRC Release 33-64)'' Successful first flight tests at Dallas of XC-142A V/Stol transport aircraft that could take off and land vertically were conducted by Ling ...

... anticipated. A similar experiment was launched from Point Barrow successfully. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' USAF's XC-142A V/Stol, designed and built by Ling-Temco-Vought , made its first public flight at ...

... ft, apart; (3) more fuel than originally expected was required. ''(Houston Chron, 7/10/65)'' XC-142A aircraft, designed to take off vertically and fly horizontally to a top speed of 430 ...

... 66-32; NASA Rpt. SRL)'' USN announced successful completion of flight tests of V/Stol XC-142A aircraft aboard U.S.S. Bennington. Tests included 44 short and six vertical takeoffs at ...

... /68, A5)'' NASA announced it soon would begin series of test flights at LaRC of XC-142 tilt-wing VTOL aircraft on loan from USAF, to determine opera­tional problems in airport terminal areas during poor visibility. XC-142, for which Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc., was prime contractor, was propeller-driven and powered ...

... .R. launched COSMOS LXXXVI , COSMOS LXXXVII LXXXVII , COSMOS LXXXVIII LXXXVIII , COSMOS LXXXIX LXXXIX , and COSMOS XC XC artificial earth satellites with a single booster. Orbital parameters: apogee, 1,609 km. (999.3 ...

... reported completion of 40mo of tests in a joint U.S.-Canadian project using an XC-8A Buffalo military cargo plane from Canada with a huge air-filled rubber doughnut for ... soft-land at a rate of 8ft per sec with. a .6° nose angle. The XC-8A weighed 33,000lb during the tests without cargo; Buzzard said it could have tested ...

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