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  • Recent discovery in the Fokker archives

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  • Tupolev Tu-160, world's largest strategic bomber and the largest plane to use variable wing geometry

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  • Garrett STAMP

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  • New video on the Rutland Reindeer

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  • McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, a Parasite Fighter designed for use with the B-36 Peacemaker and possibly inspired by ww2 German paper bombers that also had parasites.

    Posted by IronWarhorses@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 37 comments

  • Ethiopian Air Lines Convair CV-240 using JATO's for take-off. Both Asmara and Addis Abeba were hot and high airfields necessitating JATO-assisted take-offs; this was abandoned when a mis-alligned bottle exploded, blowing a hole in ET-T-21's wing.

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  • MBB Lampyridae. A cancelled West German stealth fighter from 1981.

    Posted by NinetiethPercentile@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 11 comments

  • UGLY AF Hunchbacked Soviet Attack AIrcraft

    Posted by IronWarhorses@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 109 comments

  • Douglas DC-4 taking off using JATO rockets. The plane is a freighter used by American Airlines.

    Posted by KJ_is_a_doomer@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 13 comments

  • Saw this Honda Jet recently

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  • Lockheed AC-130U Spooky gunship

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  • Hawker Siddeley Trident 3. Who needs RATO.

    Posted by badpuffthaikitty@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 43 comments

  • They tried rockets on the Comet too! The G-5-1 prototype took to the sky using De Havilland Sprite booster. Note the prototype's landing gear as well.

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  • I heard we were doing L -300s

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  • The Blackburn Cubaroo: Ugly name for an ugly plane

    Posted by 13curseyoukhan@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 21 comments

  • RCAF Canso (Catalina), early 1950s. I've no idea why they did this; its not like they lacked runway-length.

    Posted by Madeline_Basset@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 47 comments

  • North American F-82G Twin Mustang

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  • Someone tried to tell me the RAF haven’t used a single ugly aircraft from 1944-2025. Help me think of a few others..

    Posted by Specialist-Ad-5300@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 165 comments

  • The TP1000

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  • Dassault Rafale with CFT's (Also Eurofighter)

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  • Beta Technologies CX300 CTOL variant

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  • Fairchild AC-119K Stinger gunship at Da Nang Air Base, South Vietnam, April 1972

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  • Saw this Twin turbo-pusher prop private plane taking off from SNA the other week

    Posted by Shelikescloth@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 33 comments

  • Horten Ho 229

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  • Convair CV-340 operating for Caribair taking off using JATO rockets at St. Thomas airport. (I guess i'm the JATO airliners guy now)

    Posted by KJ_is_a_doomer@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 14 comments

  • North American F-107A first prototype 55-5118 during trials in 1956

    Posted by jacksmachiningreveng@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 41 comments

  • Douglas DC-9 modified with JATO bottles used by Overseas National Airways.

    Posted by KJ_is_a_doomer@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 43 comments

  • Catapult-mounted Supermarine Walrus folding-wing biplanes on the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter (1930s)

    Posted by Laundry_Hamper@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 28 comments

  • SIAI-Marchetti FN.333 Riviera

    Posted by RLoret@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 3 comments

  • Piasecki Speed Cobra. A proposed testbed for Piasecki's proprietary vectored thrust ducted propeller (VTDP) design from 1996.

    Posted by NinetiethPercentile@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 2 comments

  • Tactical Robotics Cormorant: Unmanned Israeli military flying car currently in development

    Posted by ElectricAccordian@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 4 comments

  • Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant heavy airlifter opens its huge cargo doors to unload a Renault UE armoured carrier

    Posted by IronWarhorses@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 0 comments

  • OV-10 Bronco experimentally fitted with a lateral and forward firing M197 20mm rotary cannon installation in the utility bay by hw97karbine

    Posted by IronWarhorses@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 4 comments

  • B-52 Zwilling

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  • Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck first flown in 1950 and the only Canadian-designed fighter to achieve production status

    Posted by jacksmachiningreveng@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 41 comments

  • Lockheed's X-44 MANTA. Experimental tailless aircraft.

    Posted by KyleTheStupidJew56@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 13 comments

  • The Boeing 367-80 (Dash 80) with a 5th engine. It was the Boeing 707 prototype and used to test the engine of the upcoming Boeing 727

    Posted by Met76@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 15 comments

  • Lockheed L-300 was the sole civilian Starlifter which became a flying observatory for NASA

    Posted by KJ_is_a_doomer@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 25 comments

  • REGENT Viceroy electric ground-effect vehicle prototype in Narragansett Bay, March 2025

    Posted by RLoret@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 46 comments

  • Secret Cold War aircraft. Convair's experimental marvels. Rare documentary footage [VIDEO]

    Posted by Atellani@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 7 comments

  • Northrop Grumman Firebird

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  • The V-22's Predecessor: The XV-15 used by the Coast Guard

    Posted by BicycleMan408@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 9 comments

  • NASA unmanned prototype GL-10 ‘Greased Lightning’

    Posted by iamnotabot7890@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 26 comments

  • Kaman "Roto-Chute" prototypes designed for dropping supplies from fast aircraft in the 1950s

    Posted by jacksmachiningreveng@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 71 comments

  • Electric departing KJYO

    Posted by GnarlyBits@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 22 comments

  • A500

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  • The McDonnell Douglas DC-X Delta Clipper one third scale prototype of a SSTO suborbital recoverable rocket, able to steer with five aerodynamic flaps and eight engine gimbal actuators

    Posted by Xeelee1123@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 180 comments

  • Twin boom flat annular wing push prop drone.

    Posted by Difficult_Front_3987@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 40 comments

  • REGENT Viceroy electric ground-effect vehicle

    Posted by RLoret@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 0 comments

  • CX300 in FDK charging

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