The Bell X-14 (Bell Type 68) is an experimental VTOL aircraft flown in the United States in the 1950s. The main objective of the project was to demonstrate vectored thrust horizontal and …

2023年3月21日 · With ungainly proportions, Beechcraft wings and tail surfaces, and a primitive flight control computer strapped to the nose, the Bell X-14 was a decidedly unconventional X …

This week I had occasion to stumble across the only surviving Bell X-14. In fact, it was the solitary unit built. A special mission test bed (the only X series without a canopy), it became the basic …

The X-14 was an open-cockpit mid-wing monoplane of all-aluminium construction. It was powered by two 707kg Armstrong Siddeley Viper 8 axial-flow turbojets mounted horizontally side-by …

2018年8月24日 · To expedite construction and development of the vehicle, the Bell team delivered a rather gangly-looking aircraft that featured an open-air cockpit, long landing gear …

Built under a US Air Force contract, the X-14 used a planar array of diverter vanes to vector the exhaust of two Armstrong Siddeley ASV8 Viper engines (1,750 lb thrust each) at the center of …

2016年8月5日 · Neil A. Armstrong is photographed in the cockpit of the Ames Bell X-14 aircraft at NASA's Ames Research Center. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in …

2023年1月12日 · In the mid-1950s, after initial experiments into jet-powered vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) technology with the use of Model 65 ATV, Bell designed a more sophisticated …

The Bell X-14 (Type 68) was an experimental aircraft designed and built by Bell Aerospace in the 1950s to explore vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities.

Bell Aircraft developed the Model 68 for testing by the United States Air Force (USAF) and NASA in the 1950s, with the goal of using a vector thruster to provide the lift needed to take off, land, …