Fwd: 25 Bizarre Aircraft

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Subject: FW: 25 Bizarre Aircraft

 

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From: .Subject: FW: 25 Bizarre Aircraft
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 21:15:21 -0500

 

.Subject: 25 Bizarre Aircraft

 

THESE ARE REALLY AMAZING DESIGNS.  WHO  COULD THINK OF STUFF LIKE THIS?
 
CHECKOUT  THE AVRO CANADA VZ9 - THIS MUST'VE BEEN WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT WERE FLYING  SAUCERS.
 
  

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25 Bizarre  Aircraft That Don't Look Like They Should Fly
  

Stipa-Caproni, an experimental Italian  aircraft with a barrel-shaped fuselage (1932).
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Photo: ;Wikimedia Commons <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni>
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Vought  V-173, the "Flying Pancake", an American experimental fighter aircraft  for the United States Navy (1942).
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Photo: ;San Diego Air & Space Museum <http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/tags/v173/>  /  Scribd <http://www.scribd.com/doc/78712502/Naval-Fighters-21-Chance-Vought-v-173-amp-XF5U-1-Flying-Pancakes>
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Blohm & Voss BV 141, a World  War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon  structural asymmetry.
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Photo:  wwiiaircraftphotos.com <http://www.wwiiaircraftphotos.com/luftwaffephotos/lbv1415.htm>
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Douglas XB-42  Mixmaster, an experimental bomber aircraft, designed to have a very high  top speed (1944).
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Photo:  U.S. Air Force
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Libellula, a tandem-winged  and twin-engined British experimental plane which gives the pilot an  excellent view for landing on aircraft carriers (1945).
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Photo:  William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty  Images
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North American XF-82. Stitch  together two P-51 Mustangs, and you get this long-range escort fighter  (1946).
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Photo:  U.S. Air Force
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Northrop XB-35, an  experimental flying wing heavy bomber developed for the United States  Army Air Forces during and shortly after World War II.
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Photo:  U.S. Air Force
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McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, an  American prototype jet fighter, intended to be deployed from the bomb  bay of the Convair B-36 (1948).
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Photo:  U.S. Air Force
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Martin XB-51, an American  "tri-jet" ground attack aircraft. Note the unorthodox design: one engine  at the tail, and two underneath the forward fuselage in pods  (1949).
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Photo:  U.S. Air Force
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Douglas X-3 Stiletto, built  to investigate the design features necessary for an aircraft to sustain  supersonic speeds (1953 - 1956)
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-3/index.html>
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Lockheed XFV, "The Salmon,"  an experimental tailsitter prototype escort fighter aircraft  (1953).
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Photo:  U.S. Air Force
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De Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle  flying platform, designed to carry one soldier to reconnaissance  missions (1954).
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Photo:  U.S. Army/ army.arch <http://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/4206877702/>
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Snecma Flying  Coleoptere (C-450), a French experimental, annular wing aeroplane,  propulsed by a turbo-reactor, able to take off and land vertically  (1958).
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Photo:  Keystone/Getty Images
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Avro Canada VZ-9  Avrocar, a VTOL disk-shaped aircraft developed as part of a secret U.S.  military project (1959)
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Photo: ; William "Bill" Zuk/Wikimedia  Commons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colour_avrocar_59.jpg>
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HL-10, one of five aircraft  built in the Lifting Body Research Program of NASA (1966 - 1970).
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/HL-10/index.html>
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Dornier Do 31, a West German  experimental VTOL tactical support transport aircraft (1967).
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Photo: ;amphalon <http://www.flickr.com/photos/amphalon/8211458732/>  
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Alexander  Lippisch's Aerodyne, a wingless experimental aircraft. The propulsion  was generated by two co-axial shrouded propellers (1968).
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Photo: ; Flying Magazine, Apr  1960 <http://books.google.hu/books?id=RESxP6La5sUC&printsec=frontcover&hl=en>
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Hyper III, a full scale lifting  body remotely piloted vehicle, built at the NASA Flight Research Center  in 1969.
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/HyperIII/index.html>
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Bartini Beriev VVA-14, a  Soviet vertical take-off amphibious aircraft (1970s)
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Photo: ; Alex Beltyukov/Wikimedia  Commons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beriev_VVA-14_in_2010.jpg>
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Ames-Dryden (AD)-1 Oblique  Wing, a research aircraft designed to investigate the concept of a  pivoting wing (1979 - 1982).
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/AD-1/index.html>
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B377PG - NASA's Super Guppy  Turbine cargo plane, first flew in its outsized form in 1980.
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Guppy/index.html>
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X-29 forward swept wing jet  plane, flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, as a technology  demonstrator (1984 - 1992).
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-29/index.html>
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X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility  Research Aircraft, a subscale prototype jet built by McDonnell Douglas  for NASA (1996 - 1997).
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Photo: ;  NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-36/index.html>
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Beriev Be-200 Seaplane, a  Russian multipurpose amphibious aircraft (1998).
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Photo: ;amphalon <http://www.flickr.com/photos/amphalon/3420972480/>  
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Proteus, a  tandem-wing, twin-engine research aircraft, built by Scaled Composites  in 1998.
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Photo: ; NASA/DFRC <http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Proteus/index.html>