Rare bird

[mustang51]

Only one built I believe and may not exist today. de Havilland Buffalo modified by Boeing for NASA. Shortened wings and four jet engines.
Anyone know of any video of this flying?
Bob

 

[ianhind]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1056359498422451771&hl=en

 

[Helldiver]

It's the QRSA aircraft to study augmentation of jet exhaust on top of wing. About 1983. They also had a twin engined one. Probably the same aircraft.
See:
http://www.dhc4and5.org/Buffalo9.html

Like many a prototype, it probably was scrapped. Just keeping and airplane that big costs money just sitting around.

 

[Tuor2112]

Very cool video! It uses the coanda effect great for STOL performance.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coandă_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_YC-15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YC-14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72

I wonder why only the Antonov made it into production. Cheers James.

 

[ianhind]

Apparently the two versions were different aircraft:

http://www.dhc4and5.org/Buffalo9.html


N715NA / ex 63-13687 c/no 2

N716NA / ex 63-13686 c/no 1

 

[hawkeye52]

Both YC-14 and YC-15 are stored at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson. You can see them if you take the AMARC bus tour from the Pima Air & Space Museum.
- H52