{"id":531663,"date":"2026-04-27T01:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-ryan-xv-5-vertifan-jet-fans-in-the-wings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T01:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:08:56","slug":"the-ryan-xv-5-vertifan-jet-fans-in-the-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/the-ryan-xv-5-vertifan-jet-fans-in-the-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ryan XV-5 Vertifan: Jet Fans in the Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\nIn the early 1960s, Ryan Aeronautical did something that sounded like a fever dream: they cut two large holes in the wings of a jet aircraft, installed massive fans inside them, and tried to make the whole thing hover like a helicopter. The truly astonishing part is that it worked. The XV-5 Vertifan could take off vertically, transition to conventional forward flight, and land vertically again \ufffd\ufffd all powered by redirecting exhaust from a pair of General Electric J85 turbojet engines into tip-driven fans embedded in the wing structure.\n\nTwo were built. One crashed. The other survived and sits in a museum, a monument to an era when American aviation engineers believed that any problem could be solved by pointing a jet engine at it.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:18px 0 28px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;color:#444;line-height:1.8\">\n<li><strong>Manufacturer:<\/strong> Ryan Aeronautical<\/li>\n<li><strong>First flight:<\/strong> May 25, 1964<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engines:<\/strong> 2\u00d7 General Electric J85-GE-5 turbojets (2,658 lbs thrust each)<\/li>\n<li><strong>VTOL method:<\/strong> Tip-driven lift fans embedded in the wings and nose<\/li>\n<li><strong>Max speed:<\/strong> 547 km\/h (340 mph) in conventional flight<\/li>\n<li><strong>Built:<\/strong> 2 aircraft (XV-5A); 1 rebuilt as XV-5B<\/li>\n<li><strong>First crash:<\/strong> April 27, 1965 \u2014 pilot killed during hover demonstration<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sponsor:<\/strong> US Army \/ NASA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How Do You Put a Fan in a Wing?<\/h2>\n\nThe XV-5&#8217;s concept was elegant in theory and brutal in execution. Two General Electric J85 turbojet engines sat in conventional nacelles on the fuselage. For normal forward flight, their exhaust went straight out the back, and the XV-5 flew like any other small jet \u2014 reasonably fast, reasonably agile, nothing special.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=1628728349  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ef\/Ryan_XV-5B_Vertifan_N705NA_%2810521067065%29.jpg\/960px-Ryan_XV-5B_Vertifan_N705NA_%2810521067065%29.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan XV-5B Vertifan\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Ryan XV-5B Vertifan at a museum \u2014 the jet-powered VTOL aircraft that used giant fans embedded in its wings for vertical flight. Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe magic happened when the pilot activated the VTOL system. Diverter valves redirected the engine exhaust away from the tailpipes and into a network of ducts that fed two large fans embedded in the wings and a smaller fan in the nose. The wing fans were 1.6 metres in diameter \u2014 enormous openings cut directly through the wing structure \u2014 and were driven by the jet exhaust hitting turbine blades at the tips of the fan. The nose fan provided pitch control during hover.\n\nThe fans pulled air down through the wing, generating vertical lift. Doors on the top and bottom of the wing opened to allow airflow through the fan duct. In hover, the XV-5 looked like a conventional jet aircraft floating improbably on columns of downwash \u2014 which is exactly what it was.\n\nThe transition between hover and forward flight was the most dangerous phase. The pilot had to simultaneously close the fan doors, redirect exhaust back to the tailpipes, and accelerate through the speed range where the fans provided lift but the wings did not yet generate enough aerodynamic lift to sustain flight. The margin for error was measured in seconds and feet.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">One Crash, One Survivor<\/h2>\n\nThe XV-5A first flew conventionally in May 1964 and achieved its first hover in November of the same year. The flight test program was cautious and methodical \u2014 VTOL aircraft had killed many test pilots, and Ryan&#8217;s engineers knew the transition phase was where the danger lived.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img data-opt-id=742163281  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/94\/Ryan_XV-5A_Vertifan_in_flight.jpg\/960px-Ryan_XV-5A_Vertifan_in_flight.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan XV-5A Vertifan in flight\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Ryan XV-5A in transitional flight \u2014 the wing fans are visible as the aircraft moves between hover and forward flight. NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nOn April 27, 1965, during a hover demonstration at Edwards Air Force Base, the first XV-5A (serial 62-4505) suffered a control failure and crashed, killing test pilot Major Richard C. Johnson. The investigation concluded that the aircraft had entered an uncontrollable descent during low-altitude hover \u2014 the kind of accident that plagued nearly every VTOL experimental program of the era.\n\nThe second XV-5A was later rebuilt as the XV-5B with improved control systems and transferred to NASA for continued research. It flew extensively through the late 1960s, accumulating valuable data on fan-in-wing VTOL concepts, before being retired and preserved.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Legacy of the Fan-in-Wing<\/h2>\n\nThe XV-5 never entered production. The US Army ultimately decided that helicopters were a more practical solution for battlefield VTOL \u2014 cheaper, simpler, and far more mature. The fan-in-wing concept required cutting enormous holes in the primary lifting structure, which weakened the wing and added weight and complexity that negated much of the performance advantage.\n\nBut the idea did not die. Lockheed Martin&#8217;s F-35B Lightning II \u2014 the short-takeoff\/vertical-landing variant used by the US Marines and Royal Navy \u2014 uses a lift fan that is a direct conceptual descendant of the XV-5&#8217;s approach. The F-35B&#8217;s LiftSystem, designed by Rolls-Royce, is a shaft-driven fan mounted behind the cockpit that generates 20,000 pounds of vertical thrust. The engineering is entirely different \u2014 shaft-driven rather than tip-driven \u2014 but the core principle is identical: use a fan embedded in the airframe to generate vertical lift without the complexity of a full helicopter rotor.\n\nThe Ryan XV-5 proved that fan-in-wing VTOL was physically possible. It took 50 years and several trillion dollars of defence spending for the idea to finally reach a production combat aircraft. Sometimes in aviation, being right too early looks exactly like being wrong.\n\n<em style=\"color:#888;font-size:14px\">Sources: NASA technical reports, Ryan Aeronautical archives, US Army Aviation Museum<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1960s, Ryan Aeronautical did something that sounded like a fever dream: they cut two large holes in the wings of a jet aircraft, installed massive fans inside them, and tried to make the whole thing hover like a helicopter. The truly astonishing part is that it worked. 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