Fairchild Hiller V/STOL Transports
Fairchild Hiller Corporation
Hiller STORC

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Model 1035
This design was the first tilt-wing under an Army contract. Wing tips were fixed due to initial concern about tilted sections not bathed in propeller downwash. Studies on this design began in 1953.
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Model 1045
This design was proposed to the Army in 1954 against its requirement for a utility helicopter. Although convinced a tilt-wing would fulfill the mission, a conventional helicopter was advanced as the primary offering (the Bell UH-1, aka "Huey").
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Model 1048A
Hiller received the first government-funded tilt-wing study contract, Model 1048A, which turned company policy toward the transport size. The Office of Naval Research became fond of this 30-ton transport and encouraged more development.
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Model 1056
A tiltrotor design in a Hiller study for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics which compared several VTOL and STOL concepts. Ultimately, the tilt-wing concept was confirmed as the most advantageous to develop and build.
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Model 1057
A tilt-wing design in a Hiller study for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics which compared several VTOL and STOL concepts. Ultimately, the tilt-wing concept was confirmed as the most advantageous to develop and build.
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Model 1058
A tilt-duct design in a Hiller study for the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics which compared several VTOL and STOL concepts. Ultimately, the tilt-wing concept was confirmed as the most advantageous to develop and build. In 1956, a tilt-wing (the 1058??) was submitted in a competition held by the Office of Naval Research. It was defeated by Vertol's lower-cost aircraft.
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STORC
Another advanced look at logistical solutions was proposed in the STORC, a tip turbojet helicopter the rotor of which would be inverted and locked in position, transforming the aircraft - on the ground - into an airplane. Ferrying itself at high speed overseas to its operational theater, STORC would be free of ships and transport planes, and complexity of re-assembly. See image at top. Circa late 1950's/early 1960's (?).
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FH-V4
Business aircraft. Uses fan-in-wing concept, which was developed via the Ryan XV-5A. Circa 1969.
  • Power: General Electric J85's, which power four fans in the wings and one in the nose
  • Maximum Speed: Mach 0.9
  • Gross Weight: 27,000 lbs. (12,250 kg.)
  • Capacity: 14 seats
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    Sources:
  • "Straight Up and Away" Flying Review. May 1969: 52
  • Straubel, John F. One Way Up. Hiller Aircraft Company, Inc., 1964.
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