Would you fly in a propeller plane? Airbus hopes so

World War 2 had revealed a flaw for the US Navy. Their convoy ships that resupplied fleets, armies, and bases across the world were vulnerable to enemy air attacks and required excessive protection from warships to ensure cargo reached their destinations. Difficult to do and an effective way for the enemy to tie up resources. The navy, still traumatized from the war with the nazis, feared that the soviets would play copycat and go after the lucrative cargo ships in the atlantic - if the cold war turned hot. So the answer would be a new type of plane - one that had the power of a normal fighter interceptor but didn't require a carrier to launch or land... A plane that could take off vertical - or VTOL from its tail!

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