vtol_guy:

What you have there is totally unlike what I had pictured in my mind. But while it looks like a lot of my cautions are negated by the design, I still have the feeling that a hover would be like balancing a needle on the point of a pin.

Your vectored thrust, I think, would allow extremely slow flight, but you'd still need the aerodynamic surfaces for attitude control. And since they did not show up in the picture, at least in a way I could understand, perhaps the "Vanes" you mention would be serving that purpose.

Maybe some pictures so we Yanks can see what you're doing?

Thanks.

Why bother with props?
. Use jets, pull out the stops!

Bill.