Long before the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) Hawker Siddeley Harrier, or the more recent Lockheed Martin F-35B jump jets, the concept of a fighter that could launch from a ship's deck, fight ...

J.F. “Skeets” Coleman, who was the test pilot on one of the oddest military airplanes ever produced, died Tuesday of natural causes at an assisted-living facility in Oceanside, said his daughter, ...

WASHINGTON — The Convair XFY-1 Pogo of the 1950s is one of those famous aviation "funnies" – a weird, experimental aircraft intended to take off and land vertically. The "tailsitter" aircraft might ...

At Moffett Field, near San Francisco, the Convair XFY-1 last week made its first public test flight, inside a blimp hangar. Nicknamed “the Pogo Stick,” the XFY-1 is the Navy’s vertical-takeoff fighter ...

Click to open image viewer. The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is one of many attempts made after World War II to devise a practical Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) combat aircraft. The British finally ...