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[Deleted member 8095]

I've been on a strange aircraft kick the past couple of days and I can't get enough! Please post pics of bizarre planes/jets from any time in history. Feel free to post prototypes as well. At very least, please put the plane name so readers can do further research if they wish to do so.

Russian K-7 Flying Fortress. This thing is epic and apparently never really saw the light of day:

Render or model of some sort of K-7

Caspian Sea Dragon
Basically a flying cargo boat. Super awesome looking and 100% real!

Video of the Sea Monster in action!

SR-71

B2 Stealth Bomber

Su-47 Berkut

The Spruce Goose
This thing is absurd. I've seen it in person and I was blown away at the sheer size of this monster.

First(and only?) flight?

VMS Eve

Aircraft Graveyard

 

[Bread]

B2 bomber is my favorite, so simple, so sexy.

 

[ProfessorLobo]

The Spruce Goose
This thing is absurd. I've seen it in person and I was blown away at the sheer size of this monster.

First(and only?) flight?

Resides in my home town. It's an awesome museum.

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

Goddamn, someones gotta build that Flying Fortress its fuckin awesome.

 

[lordfroakie]

Su-47 Berkut looks like it came from GI Joe.

 

[UFRA]

The aircraft graveyard really wow'd me. Incredibly organized.

 

[speedpop]

The K-7 looks like something straight out of Porco Rosso.

We definitely need a flying fortress.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Where is the F-117A??

Always was my favorite. Looks like a Transformer.

 

[Deleted member 8095]

Where is the F-117A??

Always was my favorite. Looks like a Transformer.

Yes, it's a badass piece of technology! It really makes me wonder what our government has now.

 

[DrForester]

Caspian Sea Dragon
Basically a flying cargo boat. Super awesome looking and 100% real!

Video of the Sea Monster in action!

Officially a Ground Effect Vehicle, it was designed to use ground effect to achieve flight just above the ground, not actual flight as most think of it.

 

[Jokergrin]

Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird

AKA the X-Men Jet?

 

[Deleted member 8095]

Officially a Ground Effect Vehicle, it was designed to use ground effect to achieve flight just above the ground, not actual flight as most think of it.

Ah, cool! Thanks for the link, cool vehicles there too!

 

[xbhaskarx]

 

[Deleted member 8095]

That picture cracks me up. I almost wish it was real just so I could watch youtube videos of it!

 

[xbhaskarx]

Horten Ho 229

Also
Northrop YB-49

 

[NotWii]

 

[DrForester]

Transavia PL-12 Airtruk

Aerocar

The LLRV (Lunar Landing Research Vehicle)

Used to train Apollo commanders on controlling the LEM during lunar decent. Neil Armstrong was nearly killed in one.

Mil Mi-10 UPL

 

[Alex Connolly]

Nasa's Super Guppy always gets me. Love the chubby bastard.

 

[Deleted member 8095]

Super Guppy is fucking awesome!

 

[Mindlog]

I first saw this aircraft on display at the US Air Force Museum.
Convair F2Y Sea Dart


I happened across this cache of Sea Dart info and it included a prototype I had no idea existed.

A proposed successor!

 

[Beezy]

:lol

 

[Raistlin]

this thread is missing way too many flying wings.

 

[Deleted member 8095]

this thread is missing way too many flying wings.

Please post them!

 

[antonz]

Just wait til they get that X-51 engine finalized and ready for use. They have tested the engine typeupto mach 9.8 aka 7,546 mph and believe it can easily reach mach 15

 

[WickedAngel]

Anyone else remember that massive Frankenstein of a helicopter that was comprised of several completely different helicopters?

It failed in epic fashion but I can't remember what it was called or where I saw the video.

 

[Dai101]

Not so bizarre, but the biggest (civilian) aircraft today:

 

[Lamel]

I love airplanes. Dream job was to become an airline pilot.

 

[Hazaro]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_XP-56_Black_Bullet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyūshū_J7W

 

[Clydefrog]

The Lawnmower

 

[Piggus]

The Spruce Goose is huuuuuuuuuuuuuge. I also saw it a few years ago at the Evergreen Air Museum and walked around inside it. Very cool place to visit.

 

[BobDylan]

I cant be the only one who saw this

The Lawnmower

fucking love that thing

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[Dead Man]

The Germans were wroking on some crazy shit at the end of WW2. Luft46 has a great overview of what might have been flying if Hitler was not so crap at war. http://www.luft46.com/

As for real planes, I've always had a soft spot for the lifting body designs NASA used to research reusable space vehicles. Maybe since one made Steve Austin into the 6 Million Dollar Man!

 

[Len Dontree]

I've always liked the P-61 Black Widow:

As well as the Shinden:

 

[ClassyPenguin]

the Osprey

the skycrane also used for water drops

 

[Guardian Bob]

Always thought eh Avro Arrow would have been cool looking:

 

[Dead Man]

The Spruce Goose is huuuuuuuuuuuuuge. I also saw it a few years ago at the Evergreen Air Museum and walked around inside it. Very cool place to visit.

My family in the US live in OR, and when I'm over there we drive past it pretty regularly, only actually visited once though. It's immense.

 

[PBalfredo]

The K-7 looks like something that should be a boss in a top down shmp, like Strikers 1945.

Speaking of which, my favorite plane of all time is the P-38 Lightning. Very unique design with its twin fuselage. It proved to be a very capable plane, seeing action in all theatres of the war, performing as a fighter, recon and fighter-bomber. It was one of the few fighters to be in use the entirety of America's involvement in the war.

The Vought V-173 Flying Pancake" (prototype, pictured top) and Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" (pictured bottom) were circular flying wing aircraft. The low-drag flying-wing design promised extremely short take offs coupled with high top speed (550 mph for a prop plane! That would have kept up with the first jet fighter, the Me 262 which had a speed of 540 mph) But it was the coming development of jet planes that cancelled the XF5U. Too bad, cause how bad ass would it be to see American flying saucers shooting down Zeros?

 

[nubbe]

Russian K-7 Flying Fortress. This thing is epic and apparently never really saw the light of day:

Render or model of some sort of K-7

Pretty awesome, looks like something out of a JRPG

 

[dalin80]

The flying bedstead

which evolved into this

The harrier jumpjet.

 

[PBalfredo]

The Germans were wroking on some crazy shit at the end of WW2. Luft46 has a great overview of what might have been flying if Hitler was not so crap at war. http://www.luft46.com/

This design is so completely crazy. It has jet engines on the end of its helicopter-wings! I can only imagine this thing spinning wildly on fire like those whirling fireworks.

Plus, it's a plane that the pilot would have to land by backing up!

Those wacky Nazis.

 

[Hartt951]

the Osprey

I came here to post this. The ability to fly like a helicopter then tilt its rotors to fly like a prop plane is pretty amazing.

 

[vazel]

Resides in my home town. It's an awesome museum.

Only 'cause your city stole it from Long Beach!

 

[Waikis]

Concorde <3.

 

[Sumidor]

Mil Mi-10 UPL

I can't be the only one who sees something dirty in this picture..

 

[Dead Man]

King of Rotorcraft: Mil V12 Now deposed, but the largest helicopter ever built. Simply huge.

 

[PBalfredo]

Saab 35 Draken

Incredibly slick design. Really doesn't look like what you'd except for a plane made back in 1955!

Spoiler

Also, it's totally Vic Viper

 

[Dead Man]

Saab 35 Draken

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Incredibly slick design. Really doesn't look like what you'd except for a plane made back in 1955!

Spoiler

Also, it's totally Vic Viper

One of the prettiest planes ever built. Then they followed it up with the eminently practical but hideously ugly 37 Viggen.

 

[Zeke]

always loved those SR-71's seen them in person once when I was a kid so beautiful!

 

[GodfatherX]

A-10 Warthog..ugliest modern jet I've seen in person