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Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / S.Harding - Flying Jeeps
Designer Frank Piasecki flying the first VZ-8P during an early test. The machine featured a raised and slightly angled aft propeller duct intended to reduce airflow interference effects from the front duct.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v5
Piasecki VZ-8P Airgeep, an experimental VTOL aircraft and ground vehicle developed for the US Army.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / S.Harding - Flying Jeeps
Soon after the Army accepted the VZ-8P, the machine’s piston engines were replaced by a single Turbomeca Artouste IIB turbine, the exhaust shroud of which can be seen extending from the vehicle’s port side.
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Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / S.Harding - Flying Jeeps
Briefly tested by the US Navy as the Model 59N, the VZ-8P used floats borrowed from the US Coast Guard during water-landing trials. After its return to the Army the machine was fitted with a TPE331 turbine in the place of the Artouste.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1964 / 01 - Aircraft
Piasecki VZ-8P Seageep I with experimental pontoon landing gear
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1964 / 01 - Aircraft
Piasecki Airgeep II (two 400 slip Turbomeca Artouste IlC shaft-turbines)
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Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / S.Harding - Flying Jeeps
The VZ-8P[B] during its first non-tethered flight. With its sharply-angled rear duct, twin turbine engines, powered landing gear and crew ejection seats this machine was arguably the most advanced and most capable of the Army’s ‘Flying Jeeps’.
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Jane's All the World Aircraft 1966 / 02 - Aircraft
Piasecki VZ-8P(B) Airgeep II (two 530 hp Turbomeca Artouste HC shaft-turbines)
