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Reading about the difficulties encountered with forward-flight of the Avrocar (which presumably is inherent in the Arrow as well), I wonder if modern computing capabilities could rescue the concept. Is there still any demand for an airframe capable of easy transition from subsonic to supersonic flight with VTOL capability?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar



There is the new Chinese "Super Great White Shark" prototype.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/asia/china-new-helicopter-ufo...


The Arrow is in no way similar to the Avrocar.




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