Cool Video Of The Convair XFY-1 Pogo Making Vertical Take-Off AND Landing!

 Hot Dog!  This is a cool video for at least 3 reasons.  First: cuz it actually has a lot of footage of the 1950's Convair XFY-1 Pogo in the air... vertical take-off, lots of horizontal flight, and vertical landing.  You'd actually think from this promo video that we would have soon been transitioning all aircraft to VTOL.  Turned out that while it did 'work', there were a lot of other issues that kept if from truly being a success.

 Second: there's actual footage of the Pogo flying inside Hangar One at Moffett Field, which just happens to be the first ever AirPigz CoolPix posted recently.  What a sight to see the Pogo doing tethered flying tests inside the huge airship hangar!

 Third: this video is from YouTube channel mcdonnell220, who's a guy that contacted me thru Oshkosh365.com a few days ago.  Turns out that we went to 1st thru 3rd grade together at a really small private school south of San Fransisco back in the late 60's.  We haven't talked since we were kids... it's pretty cool that aviation and the internet connected us again after 40 years.

 So anyway, if you're a fan of the crazy/cool X-Planes from the post WWII era, I think you're gonna really like seeing the Pogo in flight - enjoy : )

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