Weird planes

[iamwithnail]

Ahhhhh.

 

[HAL9000]

philfire posted a vid of a basketball being thrown off a damn, I had a hunt around and I found this

Magnus effect

vid of a remote controlled aircraft using this method of lift

 

[Idris2002]

I am reminded of this other classic of Italian design:

 

[DownwardDog]

More comedy from Iran: the Qaher 313 stealth fighter aka the "Conqueror".

I think the wings were made by cutting up bits of a MiG-17. I've never been in an F-22 cockpit but I don't think the ejection seat in that is secured by a bit of garden gate hardware from B&Q.

 

[T & P]

That does look like it was put together by a 10-year-old airplane model enthusiast.

 

[A380]

Russian crop spraying jet powered bi-plane. PZL M 15 Belfegor. (Curtesy of the 'Pilot as Fuck' Facebook page. I haven't linked to it but worth a look if you don't know it).

Supposed to be the slowest Jet aircraft in production. Wikipedia also says its the only jet powered bi-plane, but a quick google came up with this, which is more cool than weird:

(or fucking mad, one of the two.)

 

[Opera Buffa]

Wight Quadruplane












Only one built, before rather poignantly crashing into a cemetery, ending the project.


I raise you four wings

 

[mauvais]

Only one built, before rather poignantly crashing into a cemetery, ending the project.

Several hundred victims and rising?

 

[A380]

Wight Quadruplane


I raise you four wings

I'll see your four wings...

 

[Crispy]

I'll see your four wings...

I'm not sure they've realised how wings work

 

[T & P]

I'll see your four wings...

*takes blinds off window and attaches to bicycle*

 

[A380]

Volocopter. Take my money.

 

[bi0boy]

Tons of pictures of the rotting hulk of the bulbous ekranoplan here:

Экраноплан "Лунь" проект 903

here's one in action

 

[HAL9000]

Blohm & Voss BV 141, a World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry.

25 Bizarre Aircraft That Don't Look Like They Should Fly

 

[spitfire]

Mighty Planes on Quest + 1 about the Super Guppy starting in a few minutes (10/11/15, 10pm).

 

[Lancman]

A Dagling, the first aircraft that I flew as a 15 year old ATC cadet.

 

[DownwardDog]

Blohm & Voss BV 141, a World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry.

25 Bizarre Aircraft That Don't Look Like They Should Fly

Pay attention, 007. We had the BV-141 on page 1.

 

[2hats]

Really more unusual than weird but the Antonov An-225 was at Doncaster a couple of days ago:

 

[HAL9000]

Really more unusual than weird but the Antonov An-225 was at Doncaster a couple of days ago:

it did appear to take off at a very low speed.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Really more unusual than weird but the Antonov An-225 was at Doncaster a couple of days ago:

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Why on Earth does Doncaster have an airport?

 

[existentialist]

it did appear to take off at a very low speed.

I asked someone at Dubai airport why all the Russian airliners needed so much more of the runway to take off than the others.

I wondered if it was some particularly second-rate aspect of the planes, but was assured that it was the vast amounts of baggage, mostly items bought for their hard cash value back home, that the things had to fly with.

Perhaps the Antonov was full to the eyebrows with Pontefract cakes, Wensleydale, and equestrian wear?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Perhaps the Antonov was full to the eyebrows with Pontefract cakes, Wensleydale, and equestrian wear?

And whippets.

 

[A380]

Some kind of weird autogyro.

 

[Crispy]

All autogyros are weird by default

EDIT: also not planes

 

[T & P]

it did appear to take off at a very low speed.

There are quite a few clips on YouTube about Russian cargo planes using up every available inch of the runway before managing to rotate. This here is a prime example. I would not have liked being in the cockpit...

 

[HAL9000]

There are quite a few clips on YouTube about Russian cargo planes using up every available inch of the runway before managing to rotate. This here is a prime example. I would not have liked being in the cockpit...

 

[mauvais]

Perhaps the Antonov was full to the eyebrows with Pontefract cakes, Wensleydale, and equestrian wear?

Only if it's flown by a shady black marketeer - EU cheese is banned from import into Russia

 

[DownwardDog]

I've thought of a couple more...

Blackburn B.20. Yes, retractable hull flying boats were a thing.

General Aircraft Fleet Shadower. Definitely falls into the 'I'm not going up in that fucking thing' category.

 

[existentialist]

I've thought of a couple more...

Blackburn B.20. Yes, retractable hull flying boats were a thing.

General Aircraft Fleet Shadower. Definitely falls into the 'I'm not going up in that fucking thing' category.

38 knots!

 

[pogofish]

Why on Earth does Doncaster have an airport?

Doncaster actually had one of the very first airports on earth - 1908/9 IIRC!

The current airport is the former RAF Finningley - Closed in the 1990s/post Cold-War drawdown IIRC and taken over by a private concern.