Soviet V/STOL Aircraft
Former USSR

Kamov "Hoop"
VTOL convertiplane transport
  • Power: Two 4,000 s.h.p. turbines that tilt down tailpipes for additional VTOL
  • Capacity: seats 100
  • Fuselage: from An-10
  • Lift generated by Mi-4 rotors; wing is for "unloaded rotor principle;" propellers are for cruise
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Soviet Tilt-wing
Circa 1960s. Mr. Nigel Eastaway's (Russian Aviation Research Trust) comment: "In the Moscow Aviation Institute there is a very similar model which I understand is merely a student group design exercise and was never a serious project considered for building. Not a total fake but probably drawn from a description of the MAI model. Not however a serious project for a real aircraft so far as I know." See picture at top.
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    Sources:
  • Eyermann. Lufttransport. G.D.R. Book: page 366.
  • Rolfe, Douglas. "World Aviation Year by Year" Air Progress. Summer 1962: 44.
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