Real planes you just don't believe in

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Aircraft designers always design an aircraft based on the concept of functionality. Nevertheless, sometimes very amazing projects are born - as if their creator just wanted to prove that his brainchild can take off at all. The Kramol portal invites you to look at such monsters.

Monster of the Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea Monster, also known as the "Caspian Monster", was an experimental ekranoplan developed by Rostislav Alekseev's design bureau in 1966.

Stipa-Caproni

Stipa-Caproni - experimental Italian aircraft with a barrel-shaped fuselage (1932).

Blohm & Voss BV 141

The Blohm & Voss BV 141 is a WWII German tactical reconnaissance aircraft famous for its unusual structural asymmetry.

Douglas XB-42 "Mixmaster"

The Douglas XB-42 "Mixmaster" is an experimental bomber specially designed for very high top speeds (1944).

Libellula

The Libellula, a British experimental aircraft with double wings and two engines, gave the pilot excellent visibility when landing on aircraft carriers (1945).

North American XF-82

North American XF-82 - Stitch two P-51 Mustangs together for this 1946 long-range escort fighter.

Northrop XB-35

The Northrop XB-35 is an experimental flying wing bomber designed for the United States Air Force at the end of World War II.

McDonnell XF-85 "Goblin"

McDonnell XF-85 "Goblin" - American prototype jet fighter, which was supposed to be launched from the bomb bay of the Convair B-36 (1948).

Martin XB-51

Martin XB-51, an American three-engine attack aircraft. Note the unconventional design, with one engine in the tail and two in capsules under the front fuselage (1949).

Douglas X-3 "Stiletto"

The Douglas X-3 "Stiletto" was built to investigate the structural features that an aircraft needs to fly at supersonic speeds (1953-1956).

Lockheed xfv

Lockheed XFV "The Salmon", an experimental prototype of an escort fighter with the ability to take off "from the tail" (1953).

Flying platform-aerocycle DeLackner HZ-1

The De Lackner HZ-1 was designed as a single-seat reconnaissance mission (1954).

Flying coleopter Snecma (C-450)

Snecma C-450 is a French experimental circular-wing airplane with a turbo engine capable of taking off and landing vertically (1958).

Avro Canada VZ-9 "Avrocar"

Avro Canada VZ-9 "Avrocar" is a disk-shaped vertical take-off and landing aircraft developed as part of a secret US Army project (1959).

HL-10

The HL-10 is one of five aircraft built under NASA's Lifting Body Research Program (1966-1970).

Dornier Do 31

Dornier Do 31 - West German experimental vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft (1967).

"Aerodyne" by Alexander Lippisch

"Aerodyne" by Alexander Lippisch is an experimental wingless aircraft. Its thrust was provided by two coaxial internal propellers (1968).

Vought V-173

The Vought V-173 Flying Pancake is an experimental fighter designed for the US Navy (1942).

Hyper III

The Hyper III is a full-size remote-controlled aircraft built at NASA's Flight Research Center in 1969.

VVA-14 by Robert Bartini

VVA-14 is a Soviet vertical take-off amphibious aircraft developed by Beriev's design bureau in the 1970s.

Ames-Dryden (AD) -1 with canted wing

Ames-Dryden (AD) -1 - research aircraft designed to study the variable wing concept (1979-1982).

B 377 PG

The B377PG is a NASA super-turbine cargo aircraft that first flew in 1980.

X-29

The X-29 is a forward-swept wing fighter designed to demonstrate this technology at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center (1984-1992).

Tailless fighter X-36

The X-36 is a scaled-down prototype fighter built by McDonnell Douglas for NASA (1996-1997).

Aquaplane Beriev Be-200

The Be-200 is a Russian multipurpose amphibious aircraft designed by Beriev's design bureau in 1998.

Proteus

Proteus is a twin-wing, twin-engine research vessel built by Scaled Composites in 1998.

Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano

The Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano was a nine-winged flying boat that was to be the prototype for a transatlantic airliner capable of carrying one hundred passengers. It had eight engines and three sets of triple wings. Two pontoons, reinforced on each side, were supposed to give the ship stability. Only one copy of this aircraft was built, and it made only one short flight over Lake Maggiore in Italy on March 4, 1921. The plane gained an altitude of only 18 meters, and then fell, breaking on impact. His pilot was not injured. Caproni collected the wreckage of his plane, washed ashore, and announced that he intends to build it again, but that night all the surviving parts burned down.

Airbus A 300-600 ST

A300-600ST (Super-Transport) or "Beluga" - a kind of standard airliner with a wide fuselage A300-600, modified for the transportation of aircraft parts and oversized cargo. Initially, it was called "Super-Transport", but the nickname "Beluga" quickly became popular and was officially adopted.