Amazing airplane seen at Camarillo air show.
Roger Parker built this over a long period.
As I recall he started in 1993. The fuselage was made
in a female mold by Rich Trickle of KIS fame.
The wings are glass over foam. This is the real thing
and not a mockup. All parts work. Rather brilliant
design and much like a VTOL F35. Roger was also friends
with Vance Jaqua. Taxi test will be performed at Camarillo
this week.

Right now it is powered by a Toyota Supra turbo six that weighs
375 pounds. All three fans are driven by shafts
and Boston right angle cast iron gear boxes so it is
a bit over weight and under powered. Roger is looking for a gas turbine
around 800 HP. He might eventually settle for a 300 pound, 800
HP turbo 3 rotor if we are lucky.

The rear ducts rotate 90 degrees from pure lift to pure thrust. He is well
aware of the drag on the ducts so his expectations of top speed are
realistic.

Counter rotating props are cut
down IVO but those will not be used for the final design.
He will need variable pitch props to control roll and pitch
in the hover and VTOL mode.

Roger, here is Perry Mick's web site address  on his ducted fan
LongEZ for your info.

http://www.bridgingworlds.com/duckt.htm

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

Pretty cool! I've made some sketches over the years trying to accomplish
something similar with the canard configuration. I had one drawn up with
three turbofans, vectored thrust on the two rears, and the front one
only vectored downward and shutdown in forward flight. Another one with
large open props. Paul you might still have some of my old 3D sketches.
More recently I saw a program on the Osprey, got me thinking about it
again. I was thinking of making a mini-Osprey with a more conventional
(non-canard) layout with a Bonanza v-tail.

Perry

No doubt about it the V22 is faster than a ducted configuration.