Convair XFY-1 Pogo VTOL Fighter

Here's a video of a Gmax model I made of the Pogo tailsitter fighter plane.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Convair
• XFY-1
• Pogo
• VTOL
• Fighter
• FS9

[glady91]

even the harrier is a bitch to land, this would probably kill you :))

what is the song used in the video?

[DPSflight]

@glady91 Think the music is the default YouTube muzak.

[avangel1]

you suck man! The take off is the easy part. Where's the landing?

[DPSflight]

@avangel1 The landing is at 4:27 dumbass.

[cjellwood]

I will take the bus sorry :)

[DPSflight]

@cjellwood This is a flyable add-on I made for the old MS Flight Simulator game. I used one air file for the take-off/landing and another one for cruise flight.

[avangel1]

what? you again..lol

You definitely suck!!! I watched your landing this time and you CRASHED! not only once but multiple times, hell one time you couldn't even get it on the deck...

The harrier would be a slice of cake compared to this thing. Far more user friendly unlike the pogo. it's the transition from flight to landing that's the killer. not to mention lack of visibility.

Keep practicing your landing.lol

[nesokretep]

@avangel1 -- here is the real one landing:

watch?v=Nh9dhBJY010

[nesokretep]

@glady91 -- This thing actually flew. But it WAS difficult to land. A friend of our family was the test pilot.

[rickd248]

When I was a child I saw the real thing fly. Back then everyone wanted to have a VTOL aircraft. Many different methods were tried. Some had vertically mounted jet engines, some hand turbines with counter rotating props. Honestly, most were flying death traps and the men who flew them should have been recognized as the heros they truly were. Their tests (and deaths) paid off. Look at what we have now.

[CaesiusX]

I came to this video while trying to make a Lost in Space tribute video for my 50 yr old brother, & saw this video for the “Pogo.” Pardon my ignorance, but this isn't just some 3D rendering you've done, right? This simulator actually acts like the actual aircraft, doesn't it? Am I right in assuming that this is why it actually acts like a real aircraft -- utilizing your control in the simulated cockpit against real physics & the abilities of the craft?