Tail end of a Northrop P-61 Black Widow in France in 1944

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NASA QRSA (Quiet Short-Haul Research Aircraft) - Instead of the standard engines, this aircraft was powered by four prototype Avco Lycoming YF102 high-bypass turbofan engines (originally from the Northrop YA-9 program) mounted above the wing to take advantage of the Coanda effect.

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USAF F-100D Super Sabre undergoing Zero-Length Launch trials in 1959

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Dornier Do X in flight

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Textron AirLand Scorpion - fighter made from Cessna parts

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USSR Mil-V12, the largest helicopter ever built

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Handley Page Heyford

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Ames Flight Center stealth concept

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An unusual view of NASA's Super Guppy -- The last Super Guppy still in service

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Custer CCW-5

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A Piaggio Avanti in service in the Italian Coast Guard

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Northrop XB-49 Flying Wing

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F-104 Starfighter CCV

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French Marine Nationale Breguet Atlantique

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1970s Indian air force elephant helicopters for ceremonial flyovers

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NASA B-57 - [1024x678]

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A selection of lifting bodies from NASA.

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SAAB LX swedish supersonic delta wing interceptor concept from 1940's. It's armament consisted of 12 guided missiles

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Autogyro target drone simulating a Soviet Hind helicopter for infantry training at Quantico in 1986

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Memory lane. 1997. Can you identify all of them?

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Tengden TB001 UAV - Twin boom, 3 engines: 2 pulling, 1 pushing

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Now that is one big weird wing!

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The first American jet engine. Bell XP-59

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Proposed gunship variant of the Bell D-327 V/HXM to provide armed escort and fire support in 1980

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Fairchild XC-120 Packplane prototype lands with its modular cargo pod

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If we’re doing Weird Winglet Wednesday - Falcon 50 with spiroid winglets

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Probably an over-posted airframe but I just had to share this shot of it: the Convair Pogo revving up inside Hangar One, 1954, photo by Nat Farbman

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XP-79B: Totally Not Designed Not To Ram Other Aircraft

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Radome with Westinghouse AN/APY-1 radar being mounted on an E-3 Sentry AWACS plane

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Ilyushin Il-20 not so much weird as fugly!

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Northrop P-61B Black Widow night fighter in flight over the Pacific in 1945

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The Fairey Gannet, a weird, anime looking carrier based plane (credit in pic)

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Mutated, ill-tempered Seabears

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Beecraft Wee Bee 1948 prototype that was big enough to carry a man and small enough to be carried by a man

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Right outside of a cartoon, the Northrop X-4 Bantam

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Interior of a Russian Air Force A-50 AWACS plane

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The Miles M.39B Libellula: someone forgot to use the manual

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Rutan Model 202 Boomerang performing flyby at EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, WI - July 28th, 2011 [OC]

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Edgley Optica spotted this morning in Tampa, FL. Not too many still flying. Only 22 ever built.

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1946 Lancaster Test Bed w/ Jet Engines

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Fairey Gannet AEW.3 of 849 NAS B Flight lands on HMS Hermes in the early 1960s

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This caption made me realize that we COULD build more Pancakes, we simple CHOSE not to.....

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Short Sperrin - Weird Nacelles

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Heinkel He 162 Volksjager [2500×1895]

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Boeing MQ-25 Stingray by PhantomWorks

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Armstrong-Withworth AW.650 Argosy - The Last Hurrah of the Armstrong-Withworth Aircraft Company

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Martin 262 convoy fighter

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Air tunnel model of Bell's Venus attack jet (1945)

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EC-37B Compass Call

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Ghana's KTK-02 Concept Attack Helicopter

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Lockheed A-12 (SR 71 Blackbird predecessor) wind-tunnel test models at NASA Langley, showing an interesting canard configuration as well as the more familiar configuration that was ultimately used.

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Sikorsky RS-1 over Hawaii, 1934

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Skunk Works A-12 early prototype?

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North American F-82 Twin Mustang low level passes at Las Vegas in May 1949

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A Grumman TS-2A Tracker as art. Titled “Grumman Greenhouse” by artist Jordan Griska in front of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

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The Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B was a stretched version of the Trident, and had a small booster-engine making it a four-engined Trijet.

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With eight powerplants and rear-mounted landing skids, this open-cockpit cargo hauler was intended to beat all existing speed records - but was eventually scrapped due to visibility issues in poor weather.

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Cirrus VisionJet - the interior is a standard business jet, but the engine on top of the fuselage and the V tail are both weird and attractive.

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The HESA Saeqeh, basically an F-5 with 2 vertical stabilizers.

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Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut

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The WB-57 (NASA) for high altitudes

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Eviation’s electric commuter plane Alice doing engine runs and prepping for high speed taxi tests, north of Seattle, January 10, 2022

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Weird helicopter for sale at Compton Airport, LA.

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The Chu Hummingbird was an experimental co-axial helicopter developed by Chinese aviation engineer Major General C. J. Chu (朱家仁) in China during the 1940s

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I see your Grob Strato, and I raise you the Grob G-520. A substitute to the Lockheed U-2 after Germany failed to acquire one from the US. It can cruise at 50,000 ft. with a single turboprop

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Bugatti Model 100 Replica (OC)

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One Wing, One F-15

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Northrop Grumman Firebird

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Focke Wulf Fw 189 V1 prototype in flight

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YOV-10D Night Observation Gunship System (NOGS) with FLIR sensor and XM197 20mm cannon in a ventral turret

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An-225 Mriya carrying Buran shuttle being chased by L-39 Albatross

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Sukhoi S-54 ‘Baby Flanker’, a concept for a low cost, single engine Flanker derivative.

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Sukhoi Drift demonstrated by an Su-7 fitted with skids instead of wheels for dirt strip operations

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Aviogenex Boeing 2707 SST Livery concept

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1917 Supermarine P.B.31E Nighthawk

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A rare photo of the Vought V-173 Flying Pancake

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Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) XC-142 tiltwing prototype carries out a dump truck drop

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The beautiful Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender

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North American Aviation F-107A. 1 of 2 in existence.

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Curtiss-Wright CW-21 Demon Interceptor in flight

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Weird plane. Not sure it would fly. Not even sure what it is. Enlighten me.

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Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair, a DC-4/C54E conversion

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Myasishchev M-4. the US believed they had 800 M-4s at the time. In response to apparent soviet bomber number superiority the US commissioned over 2000 B47s and 750 B52s. The soviets in fact lacked a strategic bomber worth talking about and in much smaller numbers. in reality they had 10

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A Curtiss P-40 shown as recovered from the bottom of a swamp. The eyeball was added for display purpose.

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B 47 downwards ejection 1954

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PZL-Mielec M-18 Dromader in flight

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Rohrbach Ro II being powered by its emergency sailing rig.

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Experimental chin turret on a Bell UH-1 with twin MG 3 machine guns

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A YP6B-1 on beaching gear . | Photo: US Navy/Martin Photograph

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When your fighter plane eats too much. The Fairey Gannet was an anti-submarine warfare aircraft of the 1950s -1960s.

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the navigator-plotter of Victor B.1 XH928 at 10 Squadron at RAF Cottesmore, seen in position through the window of the visual bomb aiming position, June 1959.

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Rockwell HiMAT Drone (Carried by a B-52)

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A homebuilt airplane with the propeller mounted on a ball joint mechanism that was synchronized to the movements of the tail assembly (~1942)

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Martin XPB2M-1 Mars prototype with a Piper Cub on each wing for scale

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Jabiru 432

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Dornier / Lippisch Aerodyne

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Push Pull!

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X-32b: A very happy boi!

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Convair NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator.

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The Myasishchev M-50 a heckin' weird bomber, but oddly pretty

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Vickers Wellesley in flight

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Yakovlev Yak-141

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NASA AeroVironment Helios Prototype

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Northrop HL-10 Alongside F-104 Starfighter

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Conroy Skymonster, a one off conversion of a Canadair CL44.

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The Blohm & Voss Bv P.111, a fall-back proposal for the Bv 138 flying boat. I've developed the theory that B&V could see into the future, knew this subreddit would be a thing, and they're now basically just trolling us.

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Lockheed Martin MC-130J 'Marine Amphibious Capability' concept: An amphibious Hercules with floats that can take off and land from water

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Boeing X-50 A Dragonfly Manned Version Concept

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Unfinished Nakajima Kikka pictured in October 1945

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Saab 35 Draken showing off her curves [1080x890]

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Fokker D.XXIII single seat twin engined fighter prototype in flight

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The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Designed to take off from the water and fly at high speed over long distances it was to make true flights at high altitude, but also have the capability of flying efficiency above sea level

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Yakovlev VVP-6 an extremely massive six rotor helicopter from 1960's. It's primary function was a rapid deployment of S75 missiles into orcish wilderness

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A mockup of the European Space Shuttle 'Hermes' that never materialized. Picture taken at le Bourget, Paris in June 1991 by Per-Olof Forsberg

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The Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor. A Covert Utility aircraft operated by the DOJ that never received its type certification.

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YF-117A Nighthawk #781 Toxic Death

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NASA M2-F1 (The Flying Bathtub), first of the wingless aircraft program

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Bristol 188 supersonic research aircraft takes off for its first flight on April 14th 1962

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Rockwell X-31 made using parts from the Europhyter, F-16/F-16XL, F-20, F/A-18, Cessna Citation, B-1, V-22 Osprey and F-20

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McDonnell Aircraft Company V/STOL summary wheel chart 1967

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Proposed Prototype Of A North American XF-108 Rapier High-Speed Interceptor Aircraft. The Project Was Cancelled [1500X1112]

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XF-85 Goblin. McDonnell's parasite fighter aircraft

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Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress 42-5897 experimentally fitted with a flexibly mounted 20mm cannon the Summer of 1943

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Edgley EA-7 Optica designed for low-speed observation work demonstrated at the Farnborough Airshow in 1981

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Beck-Mahoney Sorceress staggerwing biplane racer in flight in 1974

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Latecoere 521 F-NORD six-engined double decker flying boat in August 1938

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Second of two Junkers G.38 blended wing body transports in flight in the early 1930s

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The asymmetrical winged two seater F-16 XL Ship 2 (1995 NASA photo)

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A photo of NASA's F-16XL Testbed Aircraft in 1997

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Can't believe no-one has posted this yet. These are original manufacturer drawings for the Airspeed AS.31, a project for a fighter with 8 .303 machine guns, and the weirdest cockpit I've ever seen. As it was a taildragger, landing view presumably didn't exist.

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Brand new amphibious Be-200ES of Russian Navy flies over Gulf of Finland

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Lockheed R6V Constitution, only two built and the largest fixed-wing aircraft type ever operated by the US Navy

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F-117 Nighthawk – The Stealth Fighter that’s Actually a Bomber

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The XF 84H. The only turboprop with an afterburner.

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Schempp-Hirth Go3 Minimoa

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caudron C.460

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The SPAS-70. A spherical airship with an internal cockpit. (Ca. 2002)

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Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) in a promotional Pepsi livery (April 1996)

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Otto Celera 500L (Proof of Concept)

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Bellanca Skyrocket II. Still holds a number of speed records...

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Dassault Mercure, designed to compete with the Boeing 737. Only 12 were built

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Just a B-29 fitted with a couple Jowl barbettes as part of Project S68. Nothing degenerate going on here, Mr. Roosevelt.

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Convair XC-99 heavy transport under construction

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Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boat takes off with a pair of Walter HWK 109-500 Starthilfe RATO jettisonable rocket pods

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Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A takes off from USS Saratoga in May 1967

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EM-11 Orka.

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