Little known / experimental aircraft

[Pags]

How about the Thunderscreech... so loud it made ground crew sick.

 

[nittany03]

Thunderscreech? Thunderceptor. Hybrid jet/rocket, less than 0.5 endurance, weird as shit wings to improve the stalling characteristics.

 

[BigBadBoJenkins]

How about the Thunderscreech... so loud it made ground crew sick.

Here's a test on making quiet sonic booms. The Quiet Spike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Spike Kind of the opposite of the thunderscreech

 

[BusyBee604]

Here's a test on making quiet sonic booms.

Sonic whispers?
BzB

 

[Gatordev]

I think that plane is over-compensating for something.

 

[Flash]

I think that plane is over-compensating for something.

Jealous?

 

[xj220]

Im glad someone mentioned the XB-70, I always really liked that one and it would be impressive to see it in person. Here's my entry into the foray: Grumman X-29. Awesome looking aircraft with some really good performance, too.

 

[xj220]

One more, it was shown in an early pic but not mentioned, the X-31. Another thrust vectoring test bed, this one was designed to focus on high alpha handling.

 

[Pags]

You used to be able to find the X-31 NATOPS on airworthiness.

 

[Flash]

Im glad someone mentioned the XB-70, I always really liked that one and it would be impressive to see it in person. Here's my entry into the foray: Grumman X-29. Awesome looking aircraft with some really good performance, too.

Basically an F-20 with the wings the wrong way!

 

[nittany03]

I think that plane is over-compensating for something.

It's very happy to see something.

 

[wink]

Under the little known category: The USAF C-146 Wolfhound. Operated by Special Operations Squadrons for "flexible, responsive and operational movement of small teams needed in support of theater Special Operations Commands". The USAF fact page has no photos of the aircraft, but does for every other plane they operated. Usually in civ livery, this is the only one I could find.
The U-28 is another special mission aircraft.

Not spooky but fairly unusual. The C-26.

 

[xj220]

Northrop YF-17, the precursor to the F-18.

 

[nittany03]

Northrop YF-17, the precursor to the F-18.

They have one of the prototypes at the USS Alabama museum in Mobile. There's just something weird about seeing a Hornetesque airframe with the big trailing-link mains and drag link, launch bar nose replaced by something scrawny and Air Force-ish.

 

[xj220]

I never paid much attention to landing gear until I flew the T-38 and then flew the F-18. The Hornet's gear is so much bigger and stout than the T-38.