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Lockheed XFV
Land	Usa
Role	Experimentele VTOL gevechtsvliegtuigen
Eerste vlucht	16 juni 1954
Gebouwd	1

De Amerikaan Lockheed XFV (soms aangeduid als de Salmon) was een experimenteel tailsitter prototype vliegtuig gebouwd door Lockheed in de vroege jaren 1950 om de werking van een verticale start- en landingsjager te demonstreren voor het beschermen van konvooien.

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De Lockheed XFV was an experimental aircraft designed by Lockheed Corporation for the United States Navy in the early 1950s. The XFV was intended to be a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter that could operate from small platforms on ships and provide convoy protection.
The XFV had a unique tailsitter configuration, meaning that it rested on its tail before takeoff and landing, and used a powerful turboprop engine with contra-rotating propellers to generate thrust. The XFV faced many technical challenges and never achieved a successful transition from horizontal to vertical flight or vice versa. The project was cancelled in 1956, as jet fighters became faster and more capable than the XFV.