So how about planes without wings?

[Ace-Garageguy]

And some more from those wild and crazy Russian ekranoplan guys...

[Ace-Garageguy]

And something really fat and weird...

[Ace-Garageguy]

More lifting-body pix...

Edited September 18, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

How about the Lippisch "Aerodyne" ?

[slusher]

Wings , rockets and faster than a speeding bullet.

Same wing

I use to draw stuff like these in school. I may have been on to something and didn't know it...

[DonW]

How about the Lippisch "Aerodyne" ?

I'm trying to work out where the luckless pilot was strapped in - did he /she sit just in front of the tailfin?... I guess it was either 'fly that or it's the Gulag Archipelago, comrade!'

I thought I knew about planes but I've never seen those Russian devices - what's 'ekranoplan'?

Never saw the fat Lockheed device either.

[DonW]

I use to draw stuff like these in school. I may have been on to something and didn't know it...

Maybe you could get them under copyright!

[Ace-Garageguy]

I've never seen those Russian devices - what's 'ekranoplan'?

"Ekranoplan" is a Russian term for "ground-effect vehicle". We call 'em WIG (Wing-In-Ground-effect). They don't actually fly, but stay in ground-effect. The big ones were intended to be high-speed missile carrying surface-attack alternatives to subs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRT-R9BidoM

[Russell C]

Planes sans wings = at least two motorhomes, and likely more...

[Agent G]

Can any one confirm, I believe that's a Neptune behind the A-26's?

Also, this thread is proof positive that if we knew half of what's being secretly tested somewhere out in the desert, we could explain 90% of all UFO's.

G

[Ace-Garageguy]

Can any one confirm, I believe that's a Neptune behind the A-26's?

Looks like a bunch of Neptunes. The one that still has engines has the right 4-bladed prop, the right engine cowling shape, the vertical stabilizers look right on all of them, and the slight bubble canopy looks Neptune. Glass noses too. Must be Neptunes.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Edited September 19, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Petetrucker07]

Anybody remember that short lived show called wingnuts. I think it was on TLC or Discovery. They furniture out of old airplane parts.

Edited September 19, 2014 by Petetrucker07

[DonW]

"Ekranoplan" is a Russian term for "ground-effect vehicle". We call 'em WIG (Wing-In-Ground-effect). They don't actually fly, but stay in ground-effect. The big ones were intended to be high-speed missile carrying surface-attack alternatives to subs.

Thanks for that Bill. I love stuff like that.

[Greg Myers]

Yep, worked on them in the Navy

Edited September 19, 2014 by Greg Myers

[Snake45]

Planes sans wings = at least two motorhomes, and likely more...

I was beginning to think no one was going to post that!

[Snake45]

How about a Boeing 307 as a boat?

[DonW]

Some hydroplanes- Bluebird K4, Bluebird K7 and Slo-Mo-Shun:

Edited September 22, 2014 by DonW

[DonW]

How about a Boeing 307 as a boat?

Sweet!

[Snake45]

How about an 8/10 scale Corsair?