http://www.google.com/patents/US2437789?printsec=drawing&dq=samuel+davis+robins+convertible&ei=2-u-T6XRLqOqiQL5xt34Bw#v=onepage&q=samuel%20davis%20robins%20convertible&f=false
lllll As of 2019 I have transitioned; My name is now Rei. Please don't deadname or misgender me, thank you. <3 lllll
This looks like the most uncomfortable aircraft ever designed. Not to mention the most dangerous. A tailsitter I understand, but a nose-sitter is just plain odd and unnecessary.
Yippie Kai Yay, Mr. Falcon.
Don't forget Wilford's take on it:
http://stingraysrotorforum.activeboard.com/t44916517/wilford-tailsitter-vtol-aircraft/
Alternate: