Hiller VXT-8

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The Hiller VXT-8 Coleopter was a proposed annular wing VTOL aircraft designed in the United States in the late 1950s, inspired by the French SNECMA Coléoptère. The project did not progress beyond the mockup stage.

[edit] External links

• Smithsonian Air and Space Museum site about the involvement of Stanley Hiller in the development of the Coleopter

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