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Apr. 17 Is it a Bird, a Plane, a Helicopter? Straight Up: A Canadair CL-84 aircraft takes off vertically like a helicopter with its wings tilted upward. While in flight the CL-84 can tilt its wings into a horizontal position and move through the air like a conventional airplane. The 47-foot prototype of larger commercial aircraft than can travel at speeds up to 330 miles per hour. Canadian governmental and defense officials and the general public will view this unusual airplane at Ottawa's Uplands Airport, Canada, May 11-12 at its first full-scale public showing. Production version of the CL-84, developed by the Canadian aerospace division of General Dynamics, may be used in armed utility transport roles in Viet Nam-type wars as helicopter escorts, and for antisubmarine warfare, according to Canadiar designers

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