Name that "thing"...

[SteveG75]

Add some more aerial oddities from our USAF friends:

XP-54 Swoose Goose:

XP-55 Ascender:

XP-56 Black Bullet

 

[Schnugg]

Meat, after looking at those pics, Burt Rutan was not ahead of his time with his radical aircraft design using canards and odd wing set ups...
r/
G

 

[SteveG75]

Meat, after looking at those pics, Burt Rutan was not ahead of his time with his radical aircraft design using canards and odd wing set ups...
r/
G

G,

I used to be aero engineer 15 years ago. But the problem has always been stabilty and control. That was Rutan's genius plus look at what we do now with fly-by-wire.

Heck, the Wright Brother used canards.

 

[Brett327]

Correct. It is the Space Shuttlski.
I have some more pics I'll post on Sunday that give a real unique look at it. And will reveal where it is. Pics are at work...and our weekend is Fri/Sat here in the gulf...so Sunday it is.
Cheers,
G

Isn't it in Gorky Park now?

Brett

 

[Blutonski816]

NOPE.

Here is the XF5U-1:

There is a relationship. What is it?

Oh, I see what you're getting At...

The first two were of the smaller, prototype that led up to it....
I forget the name V- "some number".... I want to say 173...

 

[FlyingFortress]

This might be an easy one, thought I'd try.

 

[A4sForever]

Twin Mustang --- long range fighter (?)

 

[mules83]

the never made charlie model

 

[SteveG75]

the never made charlie model

Hey, let's stick to real aircraft not photoshop originals.

Anyway, another fun Soviet project from the Stalin era:

The Vakhmistrov Aviamatka, a TB-3 carrying two Polikarpov I-5s, two I-16s and a Grigorovich I-Z.

Yes, it did fly.

"November 1935. The TB-3 mothership took off from Molino with an I-5 above each wing and an I-16 below each wing. At altitude, the under-fuselage trapeze was lowered and the I-Z flew up and hooked on. After several passes with all six aircraft attached, the fighters were detached simultaneously." paraphrased from my copy of Soviet X-Planes.

 

[AllAmerican75]

Flying Fortress, what you got there is a P-82 Twin Mustang. Developed after the war as an interceptor. Wacky looking airplane, but I've heard it was scary fast.

 

[A4sForever]

In a similar vein ... these guys never ceased to amaze me ..... USS AKRON (ZRS-4) and her "Heavier-Than-Air" Group ...

 

[eddie]

Was just thinking of her A4s... and her Sparrowhawks. That has to be my favorite thing in all of aviation.

 

[AllAmerican75]

That really was a cool idea. Too bad it is now outdated, would be neat to launch and trap aboard an airship.

 

[Schnugg]

The following links reveal some information as to why an actual Russian space shuttle is sitting in crappy wharehouse field in...Bahrain. Still there today. Was brought to Bahrain for an International Festival...now two groups claim ownership and here it sits mired in litigation.

http://chanad.weblogs.us/?p=124

http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=missions&Number=53926&page=20&view=collapsed&sb=7&o=0&fpart=

http://au.geocities.com/kosmonavtka2/ru_buran.html


Very odd to see it in the desert. Pics to follow.

r/
G

 

[Brett327]

The following links reveal some information as to why an actual Russian space shuttle is sitting in crappy wharehouse field in...Bahrain. Still there today. Was brought to Bahrain for an International Festival...now two groups claim ownership and here it sits mired in litigation.

http://chanad.weblogs.us/?p=124

http://uplink.space.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=missions&Number=53926&page=20&view=collapsed&sb=7&o=0&fpart=

http://au.geocities.com/kosmonavtka2/ru_buran.html


Very odd to see it in the desert. Pics to follow.

r/
G

That's funny. "Uhhh, I claim this defunct space shuttle in the name of all that which is holy!" If I were the Russians, I'd be like, "You can have it, enjoy."

Brett