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Test Flight Yesterday of the Sixth Generation Fighter Jet Prototype by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
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Test Flight Yesterday of the Sixth Generation Fighter Jet Prototype by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation

u/ChineseToTheBone — 1 day ago
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Isaac Popper's spindle airship, using rotating spindles instead of wings to exploit the Magnus effect, tested unsuccessfully in 1932

u/Xeelee1123 — 2 days ago
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B17 Passenger Variant?

Watching an old Japanese movie (“The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice” about 3/4 of the way through). Saw this airfield shot and it looks like a B17 in the background. It looks like all armament is off it. I could only find a couple things online about Sweden using some for commercial use and Bolivia as well. This one has an American flag on the tail. Maybe it was still in service by the AAF/USAF at the time? This movie was made in 1952.

u/racer187x — 2 days ago
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Sukhoi T-12 Shturmovik-90, a two-seat, twin-engine attack aircraft with a slight forward-swept wing and an Internal weapon bay.

u/ginta47 — 3 days ago
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Deichselschlepp or 'Air Trailer'. A Fiesler Fi103 (V1 flying bomb) modified to be used as a towed auxiliary fuel tank for the Arado AR234.

u/The_Duc_Lord — 4 days ago
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The Douglas YB-43 (Versatile II) taking off powered by two GE J35 turbojets and having the pilot and co-pilot sitting under separates bubble canopies - 1946

u/Xeelee1123 — 4 days ago
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A golden Mirage 3S looking lost and trying to cross a street in Stans-Buochs - painted gold to commemorate the end of service of the Mirage 3S in 1999; photograph by Roger Seroo

u/Xeelee1123 — 5 days ago
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Filper Research Beta 200 - personal helicopter, death trap , post-aerodynamic sculpture

Attempts to enter into forward flight were unsuccessful; The N5000F was tested in hover only.

u/couplingrhino — 5 days ago
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F-16XLs - Only 2 Were Ever Built — One Flew Alongside an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3 to Help NASA Measure Sonic Booms

In 1981, General Dynamics began flight testing the F-16XL — a radical “cranked-arrow” delta-wing variant of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with approximately twice the wing area, 65 percent more internal fuel, twice the ordnance hardpoints, and a fuselage stretched 56 inches longer — designed to compete in the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Tactical Fighter program seeking a replacement for the F-111 Aardvark in the deep-strike role.

u/AlbinoAkon — 8 days ago
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The North American A-5 Vigilante used a linear bomb bay between its two J79-GE-8 turbojets and ejected a stores train out of it- two disposable fuel tanks and a nuclear bomb

u/Xeelee1123 — 9 days ago
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Enrico Forlanini's helicopter - the first object to fly thanks to an engine, powered by a steam engine driving two counter-rotating propellers and raising 13 meters and staying aloft for 20 seconds in 1877

u/Xeelee1123 — 8 days ago
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The 1903 Wright Flyer

Ok so this might be cheating as its literally the first plane to fly under its own power but hear me out. Given it's a biplane with no seat, has a biplane canard setup, features a 3L engine that somehow only makes 12 horsepower and needed to take off on a set of rails (does that mean it counts as a rail speeder?) I'd say it's fair to call this thing... unique.

u/Tythatguy1312 — 8 days ago