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The Custer Channel Wing was a series of American-built experimental aircraft designs of the 1940s and 1950s incorporating a half-barrel shaped section to each wing.
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The de Havilland DH 108 "Swallow" was a British experimental aircraft. It featured a tailless, swept wing with a single vertical stabilizer. Three were built and each crashed taking the life of the pilot, including Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. son of the company founder in one.
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The Bell Model 65 Air Test Vehicle (ATV) was an experimental tiltjet VTOL aircraft built by Bell using parts from a number of general aviation aircraft.
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Lockheed Martin has completed preparations for the experimental flight of the supersonic aircraft X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) in cooperation with NASA.
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Kind of at the other end of the scale to the previous one! ... a totally dorbs Italian experimental aircraft of which the fuselage *is* a shrouded propellor.
youtu.be/mQ0ZQesixms
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First and second flights of the Miles M.39B Libellula on 23 July 1943. The M.39B Libellula (from Libellulidae, a taxonomic family of dragonflies) was a WWII tandem wing experimental aircraft built by Miles Aircraft.
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German experimental vertical take-off interceptor fighter aircraft Bachem Ba 349 Natter, captured by the American Army in the Battle of Austria - 1945
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The Vought XF5U was a World War II era experimental fighter aircraft. Its unusual shape gave it the nickname "Flying Flapjack". With the engines located at the edges of the wings, wingtip vortices were eliminated.
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WIP. Head canon of mine... Flamenco of Apocalypse, characters: Monarch (Army With No Border militia leader); Prez (Cascadian Foreign Legion combat flight "Trident" leader); Scarlet-1 (not visible, Icarus Armoury experimental flight, Merc). Aircraft: PWMK-1R (Reverse engineered); YF-22; PWMK-2
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I was sent to a therapeutic wilderness program when I was 16. It was on government land around Dougway Air force base in Utah in the middle of winter. I was out there for 2 months. We did see UFO's which I imagine were experimental aircraft, but who really knows. I just hope I wasn't experimented on
Of all places to have a wilderness program why here?
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The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was an American experimental Modular aircraft. It was developed from the company's C-119 Flying Boxcar, and was unique in the unconventional use of removable cargo pods that were attached below the fuselage.
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Pfalz D.X, an experimental parasol fighter developed in 1918, but which never entered production. The man standing in front of the aircraft is Pfalz test pilot Gustav Bauer. It was equipped with a Siemens-Halske Sh.III rotary engine. No technical information has survived.
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TIL that 'Neil Armstrong' was one of the test pilots for the hypersonic experimental aircraft "X-15" before he became an astronaut.
nasa.gov/centers/armstronβ¦
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The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft with a slender fuselage and a long tapered nose. Its primary mission was to investigate the design features of an aircraft suitable for sustained supersonic speeds.
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The Leduc 022 was the third ramjet and last aircraft designed by Frenchman RenΓ© Leduc. He had been developing ramjet-powered aircraft since before WWII and had built a series of experimental aircraft. In 1955 he was awarded a contract for two examples of a short-range supersonic interceptor.
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Does someone have high definition Blueprints of the experimental Aircraft? For Wyvern, Morgan and Falken?
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This is the M-497 Black Beetle, an experimental rail car developed in 1966 from a Budd RDC. Powered by an aircraft engine made by General Electric, it reached a top speed of 183 mph. It was eventually scrapped in 1984.
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Junkers Ju 49, an experimental aircraft designed for high altitude flight and cabin pressurization technique testing first flown in 1931. Powered by a Junkers L88 V-12 engine, the experience gained on this aircraft lead to the development of pressurized military aircraft such as the Junkers Ju 86P.
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Dornier Do 29 - A West German experimental STOL aircraft built in the 1950s
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Piaggio P.119, an experimental Italian fighter design completed in the early 1940s. The type featured a novel layout, the radial engine powerplant being "buried" in the aircraft mid-fuselage (similar to the P-39 Airacobra and P-63 King Cobra). The Armistice brought an end to the project.
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Fairchild XC-120 Packplane. Experimental modular aircraft first flown in 1950. It was developed from the company's C-119 Flying Boxcar.
reddit.com/gallery/r248xo
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yeah 2 new DLCs how nice PA how about you fix the damn price of the experimental aircraft DLC on the Mexico Microsoft store, it's been months since it released fix it already
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Experimental fighter VJ-101C, the first supersonic VTOL aircraft [1025x641]
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The Boulton Paul P.111 is a British experimental aircraft of the 1950s designed to explore the characteristics of tailless delta wings.
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Today in Aviation History - On October 20, 1956, Bell Aircraft Corporation Chief Pilot Floyd W. Carlson and Chief Experimental Test Pilot Elton J. Smith made the first flight of the Bell Model 204 (designated XH-40-BF serial number 55-4459 by the US Army) at Bellβs helicopter factory in TX
warbirdsnews.com/warbird-β¦
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Whatβs in the vaccines? A panel of four doctors from Nashville answer. βBecause these injections are experimental and theyβre only being used under the EUA, we do not know the full list of ingredients thatβs in them. No one knows.β
twitter.com/vigilantfox/sβ¦
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NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft will test a unique fuselage design meant to mitigate sonic booms. Test flights should begin in 2022.
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NASA Proteus experimental aircraft in flight over mountains near Las Cruces, New Mexico (2002)
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The Focke-Wulf F 19 Ente "Duck" was a German experimental "canard" aircraft. During a single engine demonstration of one of these Focke-Wulf co-founder Georg Wulf was killed in a crash. This rare footage was a flight of the 2nd prototype in 1930.
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky β russian aircraft designer and aviation pioneer with his experimental reconnaissance aircraft S-10. Photo is made at the training airfield, Saint-Petersburg, Russia in 1913.
reddit.com/gallery/rjtwml
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Is there a list of current aircraft with EFVS capabilities?
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The Bonney Gull was an experimental aircraft that used variable incidence wings with bird-like shapes. Unfortunately it crashed on its maiden flight killing pioneering aviator Leonard Warden Bonney on 4 May 1928 at Curtiss Field, Long Island, NY.
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AskScience AMA Series: We're Cheryl Bowman, Deputy Branch Chief for High Temperature and Smart Alloys, and Sean Clarke, Principal Investigator, X-57 Maxwell Experimental Aircraft. We are part of the NASA team that is developing new technology for Electrified Aircraft. Ask us anything.
Join us today at 2 p.m. ET (19 UT) to ask anything about NASA's recent technology developments for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion - the use of propulsors (propellers or fans) driven by electric motors to propel or help propel aircraft ranging from air taxis to subsonic transports. From developing technology to aircraft concepts to flight testing, we're working toward a new generation of aircraft with a lower carbon footprint.
- We built and tested a lithium-ion battery pack that uses Space Station technologies to improve safety and reliability - already being used in other experimental aircraft!
- We've doubled the temperature capability of soft magnetics for flight electronics.
- We will soon be flight testing the all-electric X-57 Maxwell Experimental Aircraft in a 2-motor, 150 kW mode followed by a 14-motor, 300 kW flight test on a high-performance wing.
- We are using what we learn on experimental aircraft and in laboratories to help write the design and test standards for electric propulsion system in future passenger aircraft.
- We can't wait to answer your questions on how we're turning this idea from science fiction to reality.
Participants include:
- Cheryl Bowman, Deputy Branch Chief for High Temperature and Smart Alloys
- Sean Clarke, Principal Investigator, X-57 Maxwell Experimental Aircraft and Advanced Systems Development Engineer
Proof: https://twitter.com/NASAaero/status/1338884365632331779
Username: /u/nasa
EDIT: Thanks for joining us for today's AMA! We're done answering questions for now but you can learn more about NASA Aeronautics here.
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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8 Utka "Duck" was a Soviet experimental aircraft. Built of wood, the aircraft was designed and built in 1945 to test the novel canard configuration.
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Kawasaki C-1 QSTOL Experimental transport short take off and landing aircraft.
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Convair NB-36H an experimental nuclear-powerd aircraft. A 1-megawatt reactor (35,000 lbs/16,000 kg) powerd it and the crew and avionics cabin was shielded by 11 tons of lead.
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The USAF X-51A Waverider, an unmanned research scramjet experimental aircraft for hypersonic flight at Mach 5 and an altitude of 70,000 feet.
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Rare footage of the work of a 23-mm double-barreled aircraft gun Type 23-2 (copies of the Soviet GSH-23L) of the JF-17 Thunder Block II fighter of Chinese-Pakistani production. From the very beginning, all experimental and serial JF-17 (FC-1) aircraft built both in China and in Pakistan
v.redd.it/445fdhf8lhk71
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Fairchild VZ-5 (Model M-224-1), an experimental VTOL research aircraft for the US Army. One of the most unusual features of this aircraft was that it was powered by one General Electric T58 turboshaft engine driving four propellers. The aircraft only made tethered flights before it was cancelled.
reddit.com/gallery/ordqce
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Experimental Mig-27 being tested at the NITKA aircraft carrier training complex at Novofedorivka airbase Crimea [690x450]
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Nord Gerfaut - A French delta wing experimental jet aircraft,which was the first European aircraft to exceed Mach 1 in level flight without an afterburner
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Horatio Phillips' 1893 Experimental Aircraft.
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Macchi C.202EC MM91974 (EC=Experimental Cannon). Modified with two Mauer MG 151/20 20mm cannons, 200 rounds each. First flights began on May 12, 1943, and four more aircraft would be modified, but although the firepower increased, performance decreased. But it helped lead to the Macchi C.205 Veltro.
reddit.com/gallery/rrfjq4
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Lesher Teal : 1960s experimental homebuilt aircraft
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