qsy-complains-a-lot:enrique262:SNECMA Coléoptère (french: beetle) experimental VTOL annular wing air
qsy-complains-a-lot:enrique262:SNECMA Coléoptère (french: beetle) experimental VTOL annular wing aircraft.Only one unit build in 1959, later destroyed in the same year during its ninth flight, having never achieved horizontal flight (the crash was due to an attempt at achieving that flight regime), leading to the cancellation of the whole project as the french government decided to cut funding. good -- source link