{"id":11492235,"date":"2026-08-12T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/canadair-cl-84-dynavert-tiltwing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:15:40","slug":"canadair-cl-84-dynavert-tiltwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/canadair-cl-84-dynavert-tiltwing\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadair CL-84 Dynavert Tilt-Wing Gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>Picture a fat-bodied transport sitting on a Montreal ramp in 1965, engines spun up, and then the whole wing hinging skyward until the propellers point at the clouds. The aircraft rises straight up, hangs in the air, and then the wing tilts forward again until it is flying like any other machine. That was the Canadair CL-84 Dynavert, one of the boldest ideas Canadian aviation ever put into metal.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A wing that stood on end<\/h2><p>The trick was the tilt-wing. Canadair's wing could rotate through roughly a right angle, swinging both Lycoming turboshaft engines and their big four-bladed propellers from horizontal to near-vertical. For vertical take-off the wing stood up and the props became lift rotors; once airborne, the wing rolled forward and the CL-84 became a conventional aeroplane.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.04em;color:#5C91FF\">INFORMAZIONI RAPIDE<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Tipo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Experimental V\/STOL tilt-wing aircraft<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Primo volo<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">7 May 1965<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">centrale elettrica<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">2 x Lycoming T53 turboshafts (~1,500 shp each)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Velocit\u00e0 massima<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">517 km\/h (321 mph)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Numero costruito<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">4 (three flew)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Perdite<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">2 to mechanical failure, no fatalities<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;font-weight:600;color:#333;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\">Destino<\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#444\">Cancelled 1974; one preserved in Ottawa<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<p>Contra-rotating rotors in the tail handled pitch during the hover, and a mechanical mixing box, credited largely to Latvian-born designer Karlis Irbitis, kept the controls behaving normally no matter where the wing sat. Stick fore-and-aft was always pitch, side-to-side always roll. Fixed-wing pilots could master transitions on their very first flight.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqKOJElAEAQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>Two 1,500-shaft-horsepower Lycoming T53 engines were cross-shafted, so if one quit the other could drive both propellers. It was clever, redundant engineering aimed squarely at making vertical flight survivable.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=391575576  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/canadair-cl-84-dynavert-tiltwing-1.jpg\" alt=\"Preserved Canadair CL-84-1 Dynavert CX8402\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The preserved CL-84-1 CX8402, now at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Brilliant, and orphaned<\/h2><p>Only four were built and three flew. The first prototype was lost in 1967 when a propeller-control bearing failed; both crew ejected safely. A redesigned CL-84-1 followed with over 150 changes, dual controls and more power.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The CL-84's wing tilted through roughly a right angle so the aircraft could lift off vertically and then transition into conventional winged flight.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Canada Aviation and Space Museum<\/strong> &mdash; Ingenium collection description<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Test pilot Doug Atkins toured one across the United States, even landing on the White House lawn, and the type flew trials aboard the carrier USS Guam, demonstrating troop transport, surveillance and gun-platform roles. It could accelerate from a standstill to 100 knots in about eight seconds after transition.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ACrSkazuzjk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>The trials went well. The politics did not. With the Vietnam War winding down, the US Navy saw no mission for a tilt-wing, and no other buyer stepped forward. Canadair shelved arguably its most innovative creation. The idea did not die, though; the tilt-wing and tilt-rotor lineage led, decades later, to machines like the V-22 Osprey. The Dynavert simply arrived too early.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=407999847  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/canadair-cl-84-dynavert-tiltwing-2.jpg\" alt=\"CL-84 Dynavert landing aboard USS Guam\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Dynavert demonstrated shipboard work aboard USS Guam in 1973. Photo: U.S. Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Only four CL-84s were built, and two were lost to mechanical failures, with no fatalities in either accident.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Record enciclopedico<\/strong> &mdash; Canadair CL-84 (via Wikipedia)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>The tilt-wing masterpiece Canada built, then quietly shelved:<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/77a5x9LLne8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Ingenium); Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Post correlati<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/ryan-x-13-vertijet-tailsitter-history\/\">Il jet che \u00e8 decollato appeso a un gancio<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/snecma-coleoptere-annular-wing-vtol\/\">Il barile volante francese che \u00e8 davvero decollato<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture a fat-bodied transport sitting on a Montreal ramp in 1965, engines spun up, and then the whole wing hinging skyward until the propellers point at the clouds. 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