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Vertical/short take-off and landing

Fig. 18-1 Michel Wibault's ground attack gyropter (concept) 1956

4. The principle proposed by M. Wibault was each side of the aircraft. A further development was
developed by using a pure jet engine with a free to use the fan to supercharge the engine, exhausting
power turbine to drive an axial flow fan which the by-pass air through one pair of swivelling nozzles
exhausted into a pair of swivelling nozzles, one on and adding a second pair of swivelling nozzles to the

Fig. 18-2 Lift/Propulsion engine.

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