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I remember seeing one at the Paris flight show when I was a kid. It looked like nothing else. You'd think it was a fighter jet, except it's so massive and strea
by mercurial 13y ago
I remember seeing one at the Paris flight show when I was a kid. It looked like nothing else. You'd think it was a fighter jet, except it's so massive and streamlined, it's more like a misplaced, oversized prop from a sci-fi flick. Absolutely amazing aircraft. Anybody has a list of other "odd" planes? I know about the giant Soviet plane, the Kalinin K-7 [1], though while being "special" it's not particularly elegant and never went beyond the prototype stage.
1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinin_K-7
- rangibaby 13y agoThe "Capsian Sea Monster" certainly counts as odd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
- mercurial 13y agoDefinitely odd. Looks like Russian designers had a weakness for unwieldy, large "planes".
- aerocapture 13y agoOne of the best collections of "odd" planes is the Research and Development gallery at the U.S. Air Force museum in Dayton, OH. Well worth the trip. http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/exhibits/r&d/ http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/exhibits/r&d/
- Theodores 13y agoThose machine gun turrets are quite unusual on the K7. It took a while for planes to become big tubes with wings on them, with the jet engines in pods. Economics is the thing, it is down to cost per mile, that is it for passengers and freight (fresh vegetables). The era of experimentation is over. Tilt-rotors, Spruce Gooses, Harrier Jump Jets, Concordes, twin-boom P38s - history.