If we do not already have a thread on strange aircraft, we ought to. My first contribution —
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/mil...iet-vva14.html
If we do not already have a thread on strange aircraft, we ought to. My first contribution —
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/mil...iet-vva14.html
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
One and done. That is the strangest thing I've ever seen.
You win Joe
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
It just does not look like it'll fly.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
Neither did this Rooskie contraption, yet it did...Not very well, but it made 11 flights......Ben
Note: The article states this was the largest prop powered aircraft that ever left the ground...This is not true today, but was at the time it was built...
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
At 92 meters in length, the Caspian Sea Monster is still the longest powered craft to ever maintain flight, even though technically it was a ground effects vehicle. and not classified as an aircraft...Ten jet engines producing 28,670 pounds of thrust each, propelled it at speeds up to 400 mph at altitudes of 13 to 45 feet above the surface of the sea......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
Lots of others —
Caponi Ca 60
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/...oni_ca60_1921/
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
Here’s one I think is quite beautiful in its own way and designed by a genius in his own way — Burt Rutan’s Proteus —
https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/art...sites-proteus/
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution