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A plane without wings would be a rocket.

Nope, a rocket by definition has a rocket engine - this has jet engines and Wheels! 'A rocket engine, or simply "rocket", is a jet engine[1] that uses only stored propellant mass for forming its high speed propulsive jet. Rocket engines are reaction engines and obtain thrust in accordance with Newton's third law.' :unsure:

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Even WITH wings, there wasn't much of 'em on an F-104...

As the Luftwaffe found to their cost!

(German accent ) 'Does anyone want to buy a Starfighter? Then buy an acre of land and wait for a while...'

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Here's a bunch of BUFs getting de-winged... AHLB3543.jpg

...and a buncha Hueys and Cobras sans rotor-wings...

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A nice pair of A-26s...

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...and a very sad DC-3...

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The 'Flying Bedstead'. Apparently the test pilot used to say 'D-don't talk to me about that b-b-bl__dy thing!' It shook a lot!

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Bill, those planes make me sad. Once so proud. Especially those B-52s and that poor old Gooneybird....

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Bill, those planes make me sad. Once so proud. Especially those B-52s and that poor old Gooneybird....

Yes, seeing the old airplanes cut up always makes me sad too. I worked at a small airport in Arizona for a while that had been a de-commissioning center for B-17s and B-24s after the war. This is what it looked like in 1946. Almost all of these aircraft were dismantled and melted down on-site for scrap, and in a few cases, were sold for the value of the fuel in the tanks. You can still walk the un-paved parts of the field and pick up parts of machine-gun ring-mounts, hydraulic fittings and even an occasional data plate. Ghosts everywhere.

And at war's end, many of these airplanes were flown directly from the factories to the boneyard, still brand-new.

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Nope, a rocket by definition has a rocket engine - this has jet engines and Wheels! 'A rocket engine, or simply "rocket", is a jet engine[1] that uses only stored propellant mass for forming its high speed propulsive jet. Rocket engines are reaction engines and obtain thrust in accordance with Newton's third law.' :unsure:

My point was that there's no such thing as a plane without wings, if by "plane" we're talking airplane... as in fixed-wing flying machine, as the "Planes without wings" topic title suggests... ;)

Of course there are other flying machines without wings, but they're not planes.

And technically, a rocket doesn't really "fly" any more than a bullet "flies."

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It's ironic. How much is a flying B-17 worth now?

But then I guess there are the running costs to consider!

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My point was that there's no such thing as a plane without wings, if by "plane" we're talking airplane... as in fixed-wing flying machine, as the "Planes without wings" topic title suggests... ;)

Of course there are other flying machines without wings, but they're not planes.

And technically, a rocket doesn't really "fly" any more than a bullet "flies."

From one pedant to another - Well Said!

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Wings , rockets and faster than a speeding bullet.

Buffeting, buffeting....!

Where is she now?

And these (lifting bodies - no wings!) :post-12614-0-91743900-1411038322.jpg

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The Stiletto may have had less wing than the Starfighter...

But nothing like as pretty (I mean evil)!

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