Lindberg Release: XFY-1 VTO "POGO"

I'd like to see that one, Silver.

I forgot to mention that I added a viewable scratchbuild engine in mine.Engine panels open.very cool subject.

The kit is a great platform for scratch building the interior and panel line work.Very good size.Also, great for metal finish Work.Mine took home awards in metal finish and best aircraft in its scale.The 1/72nd one is also a gem.

jeaton01 wrote:

Quite likely the Osprey benefited from the work on the gearbox problems that were a main issue with all the XT-40 powered aircraft.

There were in actuality two different VTO planes on that contract. Cannot remember much about the other one. The Pogo used the TF-40 (I think) engine with an extra gear box for the counter rotating props. I think the step down transmission was built by Allison, and the counter rotating gearbox was from Aeroproducts (they also did the XP-75). The props were huge for the time, and suspect the gearbox was similar to the one on the XP-75, and never intended to handle that kinda power. Later on Aeroproducts was closed and Allison took over the manufacture of props and and all the associated equipment in the nose.

    What was learned from that project evolved into the TF-56 gas turbine. This is known as one of the most reliable engines ever made. Might add here that at onetime there was even an experimental counter rotating prop set for the C-130 in the works and some sort of eight or ten bladed thing. There were even a couple M-1 tanks built using an Allison gas turbine due to problems with the AVCO engine. That Pogo was parked about a hundred feet away from an M-46 tank that had about two miles on the odometer.

gary 

Any airplane named, "Pogo" is quite deserving of it's pathetic and well earned, dismal performance record. A lot of 'a-do' about nothing. A real classic piece of crap for all time!

Bring on the Osprey.

we had a Pogo setting ontop of the roof over the entryway where I worked for about 20 years or more. It dissappeared sometime in the eighties while I worked up the street in another plant. Have often wondered whatever happened to it.

gary

John, that model looks VERY nice.  What a great idea to stage it as is; is that really the Lindberg offering?

dcaponell, The Lindberg model is 1:48

FYI: The Lindberg release I just got is molded in white plastic with the rivits still on but though there are a lot of them on the model they don't seem quite as prominent as I remember them IMHO. 

The XFY-1 can be turned in to a very nice work.  Here is one done by James Steel, a long time friend now gone West.  As a side note, Aurora is being ressurrected by one of the relatives of the original principals and plan to remake all of the old models.  I'm hoping they do so, I want the XFV-1, XF-90, and X-13.