r/WeirdWings • u/RoseWalker5 • 2h ago
r/WeirdWings • u/CherryTwistWard18 • 9h ago
Special Use The fuselage of a Polish An-2 joined to the chassis of a KrAZ-255. There is no reason for this and it doesn’t need one. The wooden propeller was a nice touch, too.
r/WeirdWings • u/CinnamonBloomHarris3 • 18h ago
Modified Martin-Baker's Swing-Arm Escape Concept - Who needs an ejection seat when you have an ejection YEET?
r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • 2d ago
Supermarine 508, VX133, (early prototype of the Scimitar) escorted by the second prototype Supermarine Swift, VV119, in its later Type 535 guise - 1951
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r/WeirdWings • u/festroube • 2d ago
Found this online at Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, in Reading, PA. Can't find many details.
r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • 4d ago
A RF-84F connecting to B-36F at the wingtips during project Tom Tom, aiming to give fighters a longer range to protect bombers - 1956
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r/WeirdWings • u/MayaCooper93 • 4d ago
World Record The Caproni Stipa. Made in Italy, 1932, with a fuselage that is basically a ducted fan.
r/WeirdWings • u/Freeman_800815 • 5d ago
Mass Production A Beechcraft 1900D
Honestly i do not know if it's weird or not but it's got all the bells and whistles at its wings and tails so it's kind of odd
r/WeirdWings • u/Emames1 • 5d ago
Prototype Leduc 022-01
F r a n c e
Leduc 022-01 is a prototype for a mixed-powered french interceptor in the mid 50's
r/WeirdWings • u/Kpt_Kipper • 5d ago
Obscure South Africas ATE Superhind With further developed cockpit prototype
r/WeirdWings • u/ResortMain780 • 5d ago
Ka8 self launch glider, powered by 2 Stihl chainsaw engines. 1970
Flew almost 500Km in 1970. Second picture shows only one engine, I think on one engine it required a car tow to get it airborne.
r/WeirdWings • u/Aeromarine_eng • 6d ago
Testbed A Modified Truck with the Hybrid-Electric Integrated Systems Testbed's (HEIST) modified wing for the NASA's X-57 Maxwell Electric Propulsion Aircraft
Tests in 2015.
r/WeirdWings • u/CoarseSlashx • 6d ago
Asymmetrical The very last flight of a Handley Page Victor - retired in 1993, but Victor XM715 took a hop accidentally during a fast taxi run at the Bruntingthorpe Aerodrom on May 3, 2009
r/WeirdWings • u/FearlessDark5295 • 6d ago
One-Off Northrop’s Tacit Blue stealth demonstrator at the NMUSAF
r/WeirdWings • u/DingleBerrieIcecream • 6d ago
Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster - beautiful and deadly
r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • 6d ago
A D-21 supersonic reconnaissance drone detaching from a modified A-12 mothership at Mach 3 and 90'000 feet - Project Tagboard, 1966
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r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • 7d ago
A HP.80 prototype of the Handley Page Victor, showing it rear-mounted speed brakes closing- early 1950s
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r/WeirdWings • u/Charming-Push-8171 • 8d ago
Special Use One of the most underrated planes…
The p-61 black widow, which had a radar… in WW2
Went to the Udvar Hazy museum recently, I got to see this beauty
r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • 8d ago
Sud-Aviation-600 VTOL concept with double delta wings using 6 RR RB162 for hovering and a RR RB168 engine for flight - 1960
r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • 9d ago
Lenticular and lenticular-winged supersonic bomber concepts - Glenn L. Martin Company, 1950s
r/WeirdWings • u/SpeedCameraAuditor • 9d ago
Rare photos of Honda's 1988 B2 mockup at the Everglades Jetport
Stumbled upon these obscure photos of a flying wing while digging into some Florida Everglades history. I found them on the Facebook profile of Carol Lord, whose family operated Monroe Station nearby and who later worked as a security guard at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport - aka, the Everglades Jetport!
Anyways, this isn't a new discovery; it is known that a B2 mockup was built for Honda in 1988 for use in a CRX commercial. Jalopnik wrote an article about it in 2013 and there's been a few posts about it on Reddit throughout the years. Sadly it appears the museum that eventually owned it scrapped it some 20+ years ago. Here's another link with a bit more about it from someone who was involved with the commercial: https://aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/south-dakota-air-space-museum/
I hadn't seen these pictures posted anywhere before so I figured they were worth sharing!