Weird planes

[Tankus]

Beriev be200

 

[pogofish]

The Stipa-Caprioni "Flying Barrel" was an interesting diversion from a a manufacturer with a fine rep for seaplanes:

Which eventually led to the modern turbofan engine, which uses many of Stipa's principles and of course it also led to the Bell X-22, which appeared to have jets and fans:

 

[A380]

Piaggio Starship:

 

[DownwardDog]

Have we had 'Snoopy' yet? A Hercules W.2:

Cut up for scrap this week.

 

[DownwardDog]

Boeing NT-43A

 

[2hats]

SNECMA Coléoptère:

The Piasecki Airgeep:

 

[mauvais]

Cut up for scrap this week.

Indeed. It should have gone in a museum, but I guess its Marshalls refit (and the fact that noone gives a shit any more) meant that would never happen.

 

[ffsear]

Its mad to see BA 747-400's now being scrapped

http://news.sky.com/gallery/1466004/unwanted-jumbo-jets-gather-dust

 

[mauvais]

Its mad to see BA 747-400's now being scrapped

http://news.sky.com/gallery/1466004/unwanted-jumbo-jets-gather-dust

Work out the lifetime cost of fuel on a 747. Then work out what a single digit percentage fuel efficiency gain would save you. And that's why your old plane is junk.

 

[pogofish]

Boeing NT-43A

Isn't that the plane that was for some reason nicknamed "Bill Clinton" by its crews?

 

[superfly101]

He-111Z. I wonder what its roll rate was.

Designed to pull this glider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_321

It's covered and some more aircraft in The World's Weirdest Weapons Ep 4 on Yesterday atm

 

[Grace Johnson]

only got to the end of the first page but this is already my favourite thread ever

 

[DownwardDog]

N757A. The F-22 avionics testbed.

 

[HAL9000]

N757A. The F-22 avionics testbed.

I can't find the report. Flight international reported that when the F22 first flew the software was very buggy, key systems were resetting 2 to 3 times an hour.

This story from 2007, international date line caused a bit of a problem

As the Raptors reached the International Date
Line, the navigation computers locked up, so the aircraft returned to
Hickam until a software patch was readied

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.58.html#subj1

 

[DownwardDog]

I can't believe we haven't had the (in)famous AEW.3 yet.

600m quid spent (back when 600m was a reasonable amount of money) and all we ended up with is a cockpit on trailer in a car park at Carlisle airport.

 

[HAL9000]

Ryan AQM-91 Firefly

Late 60's drone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_AQM-91_Firefly

This website seem to have lots of odd aircraft

http://www.spyflight.co.uk/cancelled.htm
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/main.htm

 

[A380]

 

[rr22]

The website for that is pretty interesting,

http://www.planeboats.com/index.html

owned by Howard Hughes,interior fit out advice by Rita Hayworth.

Think it looks a bit daft though

 

[iamwithnail]

BEST THREAD.

 

[DownwardDog]

RC-135S COBRA BALL (All BIG SAFARI birds get capitalised names)

The black starboard wing is to prevent reflections that would interfere with the IR/optical sensors used for its MASINT mission.

The RC-135 is the black belt test of a/c id drills. Only the select few can distinguish an RC-135S NANCY RAE from an RC-135U COMBAT SENT from an RC-135X COBRA EYE.

 

[DownwardDog]

Not pixels...

There's been a few DC-3 float conversions.

 

[HAL9000]

Northrop Grumman’s YB-35 was the world’s first tailless, blended-wing aircraft

 

[iamwithnail]

Huh, pusher propellers, you don't see many of them.

 

[Chz]

Northrop Grumman’s YB-35 was the world’s first tailless, blended-wing aircraft

The Horton prototypes did fly (powered, even!), even if the final version never did.

But then before that, Northrop had some powered prototypes as well.

 

[A380]

Still around:

 

[iamwithnail]

Shit, what's that last one called? I want one!

 

[A380]

Shit, what's that last one called? I want one!

Horton PUL 10 -
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/...ody_pul-10_nurflugel_brief.shtml#Introduction

Its built from plans. Would only take us about 12 years to get one one flying.

 

[A380]

And inflatable flying wings:

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But I really wish this was real....

 

[DownwardDog]

Yak-40 M602. The original Codling was a product of communism and therefore axiomatically shit. However, I can't believe it was improved by nailing a fourth engine on the front.

 

[Sirena]

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/mil...ng-horten-ho-229-hitlers-stealth-fighter.html