Convair XFY Pogo: STAY AT HOME !!!

Learning to walk before you run. The Pogo getting ready for its indoors tests inside the humongous dirigible hangar at Moffett Field, California (June, 1954). The aircraft was suspended from a tough cable which was attached to the propellers hub. Other cables were attached to the wings and fins to stabilise the prototype. The whole idea proved to be a failure; the XFY’s props generated too much turbulence and the tests continued outdoors.

….., but you are not a Pogo. Keep Safe.

6 thoughts on “Convair XFY Pogo: STAY AT HOME !!!

  1. In french, ‘po-go’, is: ‘petites ondes-grosses ondes’, ‘small waves-big waves’, referring both to radio broadcasting and stationary waves.
    They had a problem possibly connected to this in losses of Ariane launchers, from faults in pumps that handle fuel inside rocket.
    When I was a kid, I watched something similar in a water pump powered by a ‘Campeon’ single cylinder Diesel engine, because of a failure in the non return valve, aka: ‘alcachofa’, ‘artichoke’, in the pit side end of pumping tube, the pump entered a cyclic oscillaiton in water delivery and engine speed. Salut +

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