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History's unique aircraft

History's Unique Aircraft The U.S. Navy’s Unconventional ‘Flying Pancake’ Fighter

Vought V-173 prototype’s 427 square feet of wing area gave it the capability of taking off nearly vertically with typical wind over a ship’s deck.

Aircraft That Time When WACO Designers Went a Little Crazy Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft The Hughes XF-11, a Behemoth That Never Made It Out of Testing Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft The Bold, Bulbous Douglas Cloudster II Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft Cessna 407: Full Steam Ahead, Right Up Until the End Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft Cessna’s O-2TT Was Designed for Forward Air Control Missions Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft The Fizzled-Out Promise of the Lockheed ‘Flatbed’Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft Smaller, Lighter Cessna 327 ‘Mini Skymaster’Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft The Unconventional, 440-Pound Aerosport Rail Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft The High Speed, Low Drag Northrop X-21 Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft Dayton Wright’s Race To Build a Time Machine Jason McDowell

History's Unique Aircraft How NASA’s Unconventional Bell X-14 Almost Landed in the Scrapyard Jason McDowell

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