Malloy T600 drone

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YRF-4C PACT demonstrator

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I.A. 36 Condor

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PJ-II Dreamer. A pusher prop kit plane powered by a Corvette Z06 V8. (Ca. 2015)

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Everybody loves Vulcan, but the beautifully weird Handley Page Victor deserves some loving too!

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Miles M.39B Libellula — designed to give the pilot the best view possible for landing on aircraft carriers

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Jess Dixon's Helicopter Car

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This weird open cockpit plane has a light in the propeller hub!

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Filper Research Beta-200, a very small twin-rotor helicopter project

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Partenavia P-53 Aeroscooter hybrid, yes that is a rotor on top.

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Speed Canard

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German Dornier Do 335 aircraft from World War II. [2295x1732]

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8 years ago Discovery was flown into my neighborhood ((Chantilly, Va) to the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum

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Blohm & Voss P.170 - I don't know what the designers at Blohm & Voss were smoking. But I want some.

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The wingtips on this Stemme S10 glider reduce drag by minimizing wingtip vortices, thereby significantly shortening wingspan.

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A DC10 airtanker dumps water and retardant on the Almeda Fire in southern Oregon, Sept 8 2020.

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Piero Magni PM 2, the wing bracing struts could be rotated and used as air-brakes.

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Polish-designed Potez 41 four-engine heavy bomber

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Boeing X-48B banks in flight over Edwards AFB in 2007

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Kamov Ka-90 high-speed jet helicopter. Unveiled in 2018. Designed as hybrid – flying like a helicopter for takeoff/landing and an aeroplane in cruise flight.

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The Lun-class ekranoplane from Russia. Was built to be an aircraft-carrier killer, and would use the ground effect to fly about 13 feet above the waves.

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The DC3 recovered after 52 years on the ocean floor (more info in the comments)

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Kamov Ka-37 Russian unmaned coaxial helicopter from 1993

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The Saunders Roe SR.A/1, the worlds first jet propelled water based aircraft

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Sikorsky HR2S-1W.

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Spitfire Mk IX converted into a float-plane fighter. The RAF took an interest in them first in 1940 during the Norway invasion and again in 1944 with the Pacific theater . Only 5 from different variants were converted.

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When you have to clean the whole airfield - The Avro Canada VZ-9 Roomba.

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XCG-16 lifting fuselage assault glider.

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Vought F7U aka the Gutless Cutlass, a tailless carrier-borne fighter of which more than 25%, of the 320 built, were destroyed due to accidents

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Rockwell XFV-12 Prototype Supersonic Fighter, 1977

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The proposed 767-X would have a 757 fuselage mated to the top of 767 fuselage to create a hump backed partial double-decker aircraft. Boeing opted to develop the 777 instead due to demands for an aircraft with a wider fuselage

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Junkers Ju-87 D-3 Stuka with Personnel Pods, 1944 [1000x1672]

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The British ABC Dragonfly. The worst engine of WWI. It rotated at the same speed as its harmonic resonance frequency, so it vibrated and destroyed crank shafts, and could get hot enough to scorch propellers.

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Goodyear's Inflatoplane - This Plane Blows Up

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Airborne Optical Adjunct: a 767 prototype equipped with an infrared telescope capable of tracking the position and temperature of more than 400 targets simultaneously

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The Besler Steam Plane. A modified Travel Air 2000 bi-plane with a steam engine. It had its first piloted flight under steam power on 12 April 1933.

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Fairey Battle engine test bed. Being used to test the Fairey Monarch H24 engine that had 2 crankshafts each one running a propellor. Half the engine could be shut down in flight.

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Meet the RC-12X Guardrail, which provides Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). The Guardrail program has been in service since 1971 and it's purpose is to collect low-, mid- and high-band radio signals and ELINT signals to determine source location and provide near real time reporting.

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de Havilland Doncaster experimental long range monoplane of the early 1920s

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Miles M.100 Student politely asked for consideration in 1953, but RAF went for Jet Provost instead

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Kawasaki Asuka (STOL)

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The Me 323 always remembered me of Nausicaa's giant insects. Considering that Miyazaki is a big airplanes passionate, I might not be too far off

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The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was a cargo aircraft designed in the 1950s but was never successful. The cargo would be in a container that would fit onto the bottom of the plane. 1 built 1 scrapped

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Boulton Paul p.120 (1952), the last BP design to ever fly.

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The Crossley Ensign Racer.

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Douglas X-3 Stiletto experimental aircraft. Built in 1952 for the Air Force

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Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet (1943) [1707x1000]

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MX-1964: The Pre-Hustler. (Ca. 1953)

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SOCOM's new MC-145B Wily Coyote Armed Overwatch aircraft

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Tu-141 Recce drone.

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Northrop F-89D-30-NO Scorpion 51-11419, an all-weather interceptor assigned to the South Dakota Air National Guard, at Sioux Falls, 1958. The nose cone of the right wing tip-mounted pod has been removed to show the fifty-two 2.75-inch Folding Fin Aerial Rockets.

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Convair F2Y Sea Dart

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Martin XB-68, supersonic tactical bomber with a speed of Mach 2.3+, design began in 1954 but cancelled in the late 1950s.

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Fairey Firefly (Trainer, UK, 1947)

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BEUTIER’s « X-wing fighter » [1918]. In 1918 Louis Gaston Beutier designed an aircraft which planform affected the shape of n X. No information has been found about Mr Beutier and the aircraft does not appear to have been built.

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Horatio Phillips' 1893 Experimental Aircraft.

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Here’s the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II, a propeller driven heavy strategic airlifter developed for the USAF shortly after WWII. The C-124 was very successful in service and served the USAF into the mid-70s. 448 built, 9 survive on display in museums (the C-124’s last flight was in 1986 for display)

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Antonov An-22 (not my picture), the world's largest propeller aircraft.

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Rand-Camber-1 the flying pencil case.

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XNBL-1. An experimental strategic bomber that was one of the first bombers to have a bomb bay. It was the largest American aircraft at the time. (Ca. 1923)

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Beck-Mahoney Sorceress

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Martin XB-48 jet bomber first prototype that lost out to the Boeing B-47 Stratojet

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A Britten-Norman Trislander, based on the Islander. Quite weird.

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A-4E from Attack Squadron VA-44 equipped with pilot thermal shields for nuclear weapons delivery

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XC-8A a modified De Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo with an Air Cushion Landing System.

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Northrop Grumman RQ-8A Fire Scout VTUAV unleashes a Hydra 70 rocket at Yuma Proving Ground in 2005

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P-51 Mustang aircraft equipped with wooden wheels during a temporary rubber shortage.

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Heinkel balloonburster

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Nord Gerfaut, a delta winged research aircraft.

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de Havilland Sea Vixen looks cool and odd at the same time, a swept wing and another plane morphed together

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Bristol Beaufighter Mark V prototype R2274 with Merlin engines and Boulton Paul four gun turret

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

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Bleriot 125 | Etrange Avion de Ligne Francais

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WL419 and WA638 - Martin Baker's Gloster Meteor test aircraft, the last two in operational use. Between them they have carried out over 700 ejection-seat tests. Technically, they're the property of the UK government (hence the RAF markings) but Martin Baker is the sole user of them.

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Kalinin-7 (Калинин К-7) - 1933

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Arturo’s Desert Eagle, world's largest paper airplane. An unpowered glider 13.7 m long and with a wingspan of 7 m, flew in 2012.

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Yak-141, A Soviet supersonic VTOL fighter that was cancelled in 1991

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The MiG Project 7.01. A cancelled Russian long-range interceptor, part of the Multifunctional Distant Interceptor project and planned to replace the MiG-31. It would have been a large aircraft, 30m long, with a projected top speed of 2500kph and a range of up to 11000km.

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Rutan ARES - Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites design a weird asymmetrical COIN aircraft

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FB-23 Regional Bomber concept - looks a little like the Su-34 Fullback to me.

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The Boeing XB-38 flying fortress - a single B-17E with Allison V-1710 V type engines rather than the standard Wright R-1820. Only one prototype was built, and it made its first flight on May 19, 1943. It had a much higher top speed, but lower service ceiling.

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An Avro Lancastrian III flying on the power of two Rolls-Royce Nene jet engines which have replaced the two outer Rolls Royce Merlins on this engine test-bed, 24 September 1946 [1500x1182]

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A Luftwaffe caricature of a British jet fighter, WW2 [680x510]

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pilot's cabin of the Tu-22

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The Quiet One, one of the two modified stealth Hughes 500 operated by CIA for the 1972 wiretap of a North Vietnamese telephone line.

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Sukhoi T-60S

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The French have a record for wierd aircraft but this is a Sablier personal helicopter.

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I.Ae. 34 Clen Antu Argentinian tailless glider designed by Reimar Horten

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Ampyx Power AP-3, Airborne Wind Energy System

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Gloster Meteor F8 Prone Pilot [615x625]

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Vickers VC-1 propeller driven aircraft retrofitted with Rolls Royce Nene turbojets.

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The University of Southampton's Windracers ULTRA, cargo UAV with a 100kg payload. It has just started trials in the UK, ferrying medical supplies from the mainland to the Isle of Wight.

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The sole Bugatti Model 100 racer on display in the US

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Douglas c-124 Globemaster II (Heavy Transport, US, 1950)

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the weird and awe inspiring thing about ww2 for me is and always will be the scale.Newly built F4U Corsair and F6F Hellcats being prepared to be shipped to the Pacific theatre, USA, 1944

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YF-23 Black Widow

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U.S. Air Force Consolidated-Vultee B-36B Peacemaker in Flight, 1949. [10964x7173]

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Charles Nungesser creation. Initially underpowered before going up to 95hp engine fitted by the time the picture was taken. It seems to have vanished into obscurity after that.

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QF-16

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XB-70

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The SR-71. The fastest, highest flying air-breathing jet that still holds every altitude and speed record to this day. Built in the 1960s, it cruised at Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet, made completely out of titanium alloy. Retired in 1991.

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Saunders-Roe Skeeter

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The Chinese KJ-1, a copy of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4, that was a copy of the American B-29 Superfortress. [769x416]

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Fiesler Fi103 Deichselschlepp Air Trailer. A 2800 litre towed fuel tank modified from a V1 flying bomb.

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Boeing YC-14 was an STOL transport that used Upper Surface Blowing to increase lift

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1934 Cheranovsky BICh-17 armed with two 76mm APK recoilless rifles

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The 9-winged 8-engined Caproni Ca.60 floatplane transatlantic airliner

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XW626 Comet C4 Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough Sep 78 : Credit Mick Freer.

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Britten-Norman Trislander

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This is the AirFish 8, a bizarre looking ground effect vehicle that runs on automobile gas and can carry up to 8 passengers

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Fiat made a Helicopter? (Fiat 7002)

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ZJ Viera

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Kawasaki EC-1. Developed in the ‘70s as a short range electronic warfare transport for the Japanese air defense force

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Columbia XJL-1

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Westland Lysander Lizzie particularly it's *Weird* Wing design/placement

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Pilot Chuck Yeager, seated in the cockpit of the M2-F1, talks with fellow pilots Milt Thompson, Don Mallick and Bruce Peterson. November 1963

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The Abrams P-1 Explorer was American purpose-designed aerial photography and survey aircraft that first flew in November 1937.

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The PBY Catalina, also known as the PBY Canso in Canadian Service was a flying boat manufactured by Consolidated Aircraft, it was one of the most widely used seaplanes throughout World War II.

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PLZ M-15 Belphegor (Fallen Angel) Its a Crop Duster!

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Not quite how I imagine a tri-motor but yeah, French. Farman F120 Jabiru.

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Turkish Air Force Bayraktar TB2

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Junkers Ju 88P-5 Duka, or We Stuck An 88mm Anti-Tank Gun to a Plane

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Stearman XA-21

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Aeronix Airelle

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Pacific Aerospace P-750 XSTOL smuggled into North Korea

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Is the Matchbox Sky Busters Sea Arrow based on an existing aircraft?

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Budd Conestoga

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Grumman AF Guardian — the largest single-engine piston-powered carrier aircraft ever to see service

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CANT Z.511 - Possibly the largest floatplane ever built

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Burt Rutan's mailbox

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Boeing 767-611. The initial thin-waisted Mach 0.98 capable design that evolved into the 767 we know today. (Ca. 1972)

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E-3A Sentry aircraft commonly known as AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). Derived from the Boeing 707 airliner

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Tu-2Sh “Fire Hedgehog”. An experimental ground attack Tu-2 with 88 PPSh-41 affixed to the bomb bay. (Ca. 1944)

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Fa 269- A nazi tilt-rotor design with pusher props

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Textron AirLand Scorpion

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Avro 706 Ashton - development of Avro Tudor which was development of Avro Lancaster. Only 6 build.

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It’s A Plane, It’s A Boat, It’s An Automobile, It’s The 1930 Comet. Designers Wendel Wobido and Stephen Nagel wanted an aircraft that could not only fly but could be a boat or a car. Got two out of three, stayed earthbound.

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Rutan SkiGull. This is what happens when Burt Rutan designs a seaplane. (Ca. 2015)

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Is the Martin Mars a big enough boat to be called a weird wing?

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Saab 36 the swedish skylon from the 50s

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Experimental interceptor MiG E-150

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Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil F-WOEX at the At the Musee de l'Aviation Saint Victoret in Bouches-du-Rhon, France. This is the helicopter that Didier Delsalle landed on the summit of Mount Everest in May 2005, a feat that has not been repeated.

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This weird little guy is Doman LZ-5. First flight in 1953, only 3 built. Designed by Glidden Doman, a great innovator – look him up!

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