r/WeirdWings
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The Airbus Vahana, a VTOL, tiliting wing prototype, designed as a research platform for daily, short range commutes. Equipped with eight electrical motors, it was planned to carry one person at a cruising speed of 200 km/h. After 138 test flights, it was retired in 2019.
u/GignusBignus — 5 days ago
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XB-1 experimental jet achieves supersonic flight, minus the boom
u/TaraAnderson836 — 6 days ago
Boeing Skyfox conversion of Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
u/RLoret — 9 days ago
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Handley Page Victor XA930 taking off from the de Havilland Aircraft Company aerodrome at Hatfield, UK, on July 14 1960 assisted in a trial take-off by de Havilland Spectre rockets
u/Xeelee1123 — 11 days ago
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Sikorsky Modifies UH-60L Into U-Hawk Uncrewed Demonstrator
u/CloverGomez93 — 12 days ago
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Douglas A2D Skyshark
The Douglas A2D Skyshark is an American turboprop-powered attack aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company for the United States Navy. The program was substantially delayed by engine reliability problems, and was canceled because more promising jet attack aircraft had entered development and the smaller escort carriers the A2D was intended to utilize were being phased out.
u/Leonid527 — 11 days ago
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Do you know the Piranha?
The ALR Piranha was an aircraft project undertaken by the Swiss Air Force to develop a lightweight multi-role combat aircraft with canard wings.
A tiny Gripen!
u/FrenchMaddy75 — 13 days ago