The American F-35B fighter demonstrated vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities at the California Capital Airshow. Former military pilot and blogger Fighterbomber recalled that the first vertical takeoff and landing aircraft were invented in Russia in 1909.
The footage shows the F-35B hovering in the sky before the eyes of enthusiastic spectators.
Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft were invented by us. Back in 1909. And in this, we were ahead of the whole planet. First, they were lost, then single-engine combat aircraft. Why would a nuclear power need them? Well, nothing, God willing, there will be Russian VTOL aircraft at our airshow too.
Apparently, the military pilot means that the development of VTOL aircraft began for the first time in 1909 by the Russian engineer Boris Grigorievich Lutsky.
The engineer implemented the idea on his "Lutsky-1" aircraft — a monoplane with a rectangular wing reinforced with braces. Two engines installed in the fuselage drove three propellers.
Two other propellers, installed on the sides, in the leading edge of the wing, were driven by another engine and were designed to provide control of the aircraft in roll and vertical takeoff.
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