Bizarre Aircraft

[Ruger Packer]

I know we have some airplane buffs on this forum. I came across this earlier tonight. I must confess that while I had knowledge of a few of these, that I had never heard of many of them!!! :shock:

http://www.odometer.com/lifestyle/9545/27-bizarre-aircraft-we-cant-believe-existhow-do-some-of-these-even-fly#slide/0

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Good ones RP Thanks

 

[GunnyGene]

Back before computers, about the only way to figure out if something would fly is to build one and find some brave soul to try it out. There used to be ( and maybe still is ) a Pogo (XFV) on display at Norfolk NAS. Big plane.

 

[Bull Barrel]

They moved it to the Lakeland, FL airport.

 

[Bob Wright]

Back in the day I had a subscrition to Flying magazine and there was a section entitled "Have you seen........?" and I remember many of those making the pages.

Incidentally, the lifting body concept was tried with the Lockheed Constellation, in which the fuselage was designed to provide extra lift.

As a youngster, we were challanged to make a flying model out of an empty Quaker Oats container, cylindrical in shape. Still is, for that matter.

Bob Wright

 

[WendyZXZ]

Yes, those are some strange ones!

 

[timnc]

25 yrs. ago when he started at Edwards AFB, my son was assigned to the flight testing of the X-29[4th photo]. Later he was part of the Air Force engineering team that worked on the JSF[F-35] development. He told me which contractor would get the F-35 design award 6 months before they had the flyoff-based solely on what he knew about each plane"s capabilities.