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  2. Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig - Wikipedia

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    The Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR) was a VTOL aircraft developed to explore the practicality, characteristics, and requirements of such an aircraft. [2] It was widely known by its nickname of the Flying Bedstead due to its radically unconventional appearance for an aircraft, basically consisting of a rectangular tubular framework that was built around the engines, a platform being ...

  3. British Aerospace P.1216 - Wikipedia

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    The British Aerospace (BAe) P.1216 was a planned Advanced Short Take Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) supersonic aircraft from the 1980s. It was designed by the former Hawker design team at Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England that created the Harrier family of aircraft.

  4. Lift jet - Wikipedia

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    A lift jet - the Rolls-Royce RB.108. A lift jet is a lightweight jet engine installed only for upward thrust. [1]An early experimental program using lift engines was the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR), nicknamed the "Flying Bedstead", first run in 1955.

  5. Short SC.1 - Wikipedia

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    During the 1940s, various nations became interested in developing viable aircraft capable of vertical take-offs and landings (VTOL). During the 1950s, Britain had flight-tested the purpose-built Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig, a crude but pioneering VTOL aircraft that successfully flew as envisioned, demonstrating the viability of the concept as well as providing useful data to build upon. [1]

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  8. Dornier Do 31 - Wikipedia

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    The four Rolls-Royce RB162 lift engines seen from the bottom of a nacelle The design of the Do 31 was heavily reliant upon its engine configuration. Dornier had opted to incorporate the British-built Bristol Pegasus [ note 1 ] vectored-thrust turbofan engine, an existing powerplant that was most famously used to power the Harrier jump jet .

  9. Continental O-240 - Wikipedia

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    The O-240 was produced under license in the United Kingdom by Rolls-Royce Limited and was used to power the Reims-Cessna FRA150 Aerobat, a more powerful aerobatic model of the Cessna 150 constructed in France by Reims Aviation under license. [5] Rolls-Royce acquired the rights to the O-240, but not the IO-240 in 1977. [2]