On 25 August 2017, Vertical Aerospace flew the VA-X1 demonstrator indoors for its first flight. The VA-X1 demonstrator used 4 shrouded 3-bladed propellers for lift and propulsion.
Vertical Aerospace VA-X1
Aircraft
Vernisse & Galtier VG 33
A variation on the VG 30 theme, the VG 33 actually attained production status, and although successive production orders for this type placed with the Chantiers Aero-Maritimes de la Seine on behalf of the Armee de l’Air raised contracts into four figures by the time of France’s collapse during WW2, only 19 actually rolled off the line.
Vernisse & Galtier VG 30
The VG 30 progressed no further than a single prototype but produced other derivatives.
Vermont Gull Wing
The 1929 Vermont Air Transport Co Gull Wing was constructed at Harrison NJ. The four place Gull Wing featured two side-by-side cockpits. Wide-chord, birdlike wings permitted landings in 300-400′.
The one built NX6929, planned for entry in the Guggenheim competition, but was damaged beyond repair in a rough-field landing at St Albans VT.
Engine: Anzani
Max speed: 80 mph
Stall: 30 mph
Seats: 4
Vermont B-1
Built in 1931 the biplane three place open cockpit B-1 N783Y c/n 1 was likely a modified Curtiss JN-4 used for barnstorming rides locally. Power was a 90hp Curtiss OX-5.
Vermont Air Transport Co
founders: Paul Schill, Alfred Henninger, John Burns
Schill Airport
Milton VT.
USA
Circa 1922
Schill had been building aircraft since 1914.
Vernander Swallow / Самолет АПВ
Designed by a collective [Аэроплан АПВ (Коллективный)] in 1909 under Alexander Petrovich Vernander (Александр Петрович ВЕРНАНДЕР – 1844-1918), professor of the Military Academy of Engineering, then second chief of the engineering bureau in Gatchina. Among the seven aircraft constructed in Gatchina one was christened „ласточку“ – swallow – a triplane that followed the Wright design but with curved wings, its propulsion consisting of a 25 hp REP engine, that drove two inward slanted propellers via bevel gear, to centre the air stream onto the rudder’s sides. Construction began in St. Petersburg in 1909, but the machine was not completed when construction ended in 1910.
Veriute Model 100 Sunbird
A pusher-engined two-seat lightplane, first flown on 5 October 1987 (N100VI).
Engine: 70hp Emdair CF 092B
Wingspan: 32’0″
Length: 23’8″
Useful load: 490 lb
Max speed: 128 mph
Cruise speed: 115 mph
Stall: 42 mph
Range: 400 mi
Seats: 2
Veriute Aircraft Company Inc
USA
Founded 1983 by DeVore Aviation Corporation. Produced Model 100 Sunbird as pusher-engined two-seat lightplane (first flown 1987).
Verhees Delta
All Aero 