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Weird Wonderful Airplanes of a Bygone Era

Mumbles

Registered User
pilot
Contributor
The Army Air Corps first tried aerial refueling back in the 1920s....took about another 30+ years to get it right though.
 

OUSOONER

Crusty Shellback
pilot
Were a lot of our experimental aircraft post-WW2 created from captured German blue-prints and engineers?
 

TopShot

BDCP SNA
Were a lot of our experimental aircraft post-WW2 created from captured German blue-prints and engineers?
I believe so, the Germans had some designs that were out of this world.

That B-17 with the single prop looks pretty cool, I've never seen that before.
 

Pags

N/A
pilot
Look at the chord width on that XB-15! Crazy.

And German aeronautical data had a huge impact on post-WWII designs...the B-47 ended up with swept wings, as did the F-86. The germans were working on a swing wing design, which ended up going into the X-5, which was the precursor to all the variable geometry a/c.
 

Sky-Pig

Retired Cryptologic Warfare / Naval Flight Officer
None
Nice website. I've been looking for photos of a number of these aircraft...some are pretty hard to find.

Attached are three other "oddities" of aviation for your viewing pleasure.

I'm still trying to figure out what the "rotate" speed must have been for the Sea Dart...
 

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Sky-Pig

Retired Cryptologic Warfare / Naval Flight Officer
None
Look at the chord width on that XB-15! Crazy.

And German aeronautical data had a huge impact on post-WWII designs...the B-47 ended up with swept wings, as did the F-86. The germans were working on a swing wing design, which ended up going into the X-5, which was the precursor to all the variable geometry a/c.

From what I've read, the Germans originally went with the swept wing in the jet fighters primarily to solve their CG problem. It was only later that anyone realised the trans-sonic aerodynamic benefits of it. Serendipity happens.

Either way, clever folks, those Germans. Makes it kind of hard to account for the horrible reliability of their VW Jettas and Passats...
 

JIMC5499

ex-Mech
I loved the P-51 with the ramjets. I wish a friend of mine was still alive so that I could show him that picture. I used to work at the local airport as a lineman. One rainy day I'm reading a book about WWII aircraft and was looking at a picture of a Me-262 when a voice behind me said "Last time I saw one of those it was shooting at me.". The guy behind me flew Mustangs in WWII and Sabres in Korea. He pulled up a chair and went through the book with me.
 
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