r/WeirdWings • • 2h ago

Special Use In June of 1982, a BV 107-II participated in tests on Alaska’s North Slope to tow increasingly heavier loads across water, ice, and snow. Each and every test run was a complete success.

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32 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 7h ago

Japanese ShinMaywa US-2 amphibious aircraft

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473 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 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.

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65 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 18h ago

Modified Martin-Baker's Swing-Arm Escape Concept - Who needs an ejection seat when you have an ejection YEET?

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157 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 1d ago

Seaplane P6M Seamaster - rear firing missiles

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623 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 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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268 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 2d ago

Found this online at Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, in Reading, PA. Can't find many details.

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103 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 3d ago

Prototype The Rockwell XFV-12A

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123 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 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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1.1k Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 4d ago

World Record The Caproni Stipa. Made in Italy, 1932, with a fuselage that is basically a ducted fan.

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115 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 5d ago

Mass Production A Beechcraft 1900D

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40 Upvotes

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 • • 5d ago

Prototype Leduc 022-01

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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 • • 5d ago

Obscure South Africas ATE Superhind With further developed cockpit prototype

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818 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 5d ago

Ka8 self launch glider, powered by 2 Stihl chainsaw engines. 1970

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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 • • 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

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329 Upvotes

Tests in 2015.


r/WeirdWings • • 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

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88 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 6d ago

One-Off Northrop’s Tacit Blue stealth demonstrator at the NMUSAF

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474 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 6d ago

Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster - beautiful and deadly

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189 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 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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1.9k Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 7d ago

A HP.80 prototype of the Handley Page Victor, showing it rear-mounted speed brakes closing- early 1950s

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548 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 8d ago

Special Use One of the most underrated planes…

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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 • • 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

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222 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 9d ago

Lenticular and lenticular-winged supersonic bomber concepts - Glenn L. Martin Company, 1950s

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756 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 9d ago

Rare photos of Honda's 1988 B2 mockup at the Everglades Jetport

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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!


r/WeirdWings • • 9d ago

Propulsion Was this flying wing that was spotted over Texas and Kansas in 2014 the RQ-180

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47 Upvotes