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Northrop JB-1/10 "Bat"

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Doblhoff WNF-342 V2

1944

 

 

This first prototype, powered by a 60hp Walter Mikron II engine, was flown in spring 1943. The airframe, constructed from welded steel tube and fabric covered, had a gross weight of 360kg, twin tail fins and a tricycle undercarriage. Flight testing revealed the need for rather more side area, but performance was otherwise satisfactory, and when the WNF factory was damaged during an Allied air attack in mid-August 1943 the aircraft was moved to a safer site west of Vienna, at Obergraffendorf. Here a second machine, the WNF-342V2, was built, being a somewhat heavier aircraft at 460kg gross weight, despite its open-framework fuselage. The main difference lay in the sail-like tail unit, this comprising a large single rectangular fin and an elongated rudder pivoting about a horizontal axis.

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IAME I.A.37 The German Horten brothers, Walter and Reimar, were well-known for the design of some advanced aircraft during WW II, although they had little, if any, formal training in aeronautics, Riemar earned his doctorate in mathematics only in March 1946.

 

Reimar Horten emigrated to Argentina in April 1948, where he became involved in aircraft manufacturing. His first design, the I.Aé.34 (also known as the H XVa in the Horten designation sequence) was first flown in 1949, a development, the I.Aé.41 (H XVc) was the first glider to cross the Andes, when German test pilot Heinz Scheidhauer flew the aircraft from Cordoba, Argentina, to Bariloche, Chili, on October 30, 1956.

 

Reimar Horten designed a supersonic delta winged interceptor, however only the first stage of the project was realized, a full size glider version. It was first flown on October 19, 1954, towed by a Junkers Ju 52/3m.

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Doblhoff WNF 342

1945

 

 

Under the designation WNF 342, the world's first jet-driven helicopters were built by the Wiener Neustadter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) in the suburbs of Vienna, four machines being built representing progressive experimental steps in a research programme instituted in October 1942. This programme was directed by Friedrich von Doblhoff, who had decided to develop a jet-driven helicopter in preference to a mechanically-driven one because of the attraction of simplicity, lack of rotor torque and transmission gear.

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HWL Pegaz

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Chauviere "Gyroptere"

1927

 

 

Lucien Chauviere, a well-known propeller designer, built a machine dubbed the Gyroptere in 1927, based on the principles of a patent he had filed ten years earlier. It used a 170kW Renault engine to drive a four-blade rotor with flapping hinges and clutched to power a tractor propeller at the nose. To counter torque while the rotor was powered, control flaps mounted vertically on the fuselage sides vectored the slipstream. Testing of the 1,372kg aircraft did not progress very far before his available finances were expended.

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Ikarus 451

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Chu Humming Bird A

1945

 

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Chu Humming Bird A

 

 

Voglio l'eutanasia, non posso continuare a soffrire così vedendo sti orrori!

 

 

 

Ireland P-2 Privateer

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Ireland P-2 Privateer

 

Mah... Ti dirò, io lo trovo elegante!

Sznycer SG-VI-D

1947

 

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Qualcuno ha idea di come il pilota di questo coso riuscisse a vedere la pista durante il decollo?

 

 

 

Jacuzzi J-7 Reo Aircraft built by the 7 brothers of the Jacuzzi Bros. company of Berkeley, California. It was the first cabin monoplane built in the USA and flew successfully. However, on July 14, 1921, one of the brothers, Giocondo, was killed when the aircraft crashed due to wing failure near Modesto, while en route from Yosemite and San Francisco, California.

 

The company ceased aircraft production and became famous after WW II when they produced whirlpools.

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credo con un periscopio, come sullo spirit of sant louis

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Fairey "Jet Gyrodyne"

1953

 

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Kaman K1200

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Eduard Steiner No.2

1950

 

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Khrunichev T-411SH

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Bendix Model J

1948

 

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Khrunichev T-411 Turbo

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Khrunichev T-411 Turbo

 

Se prendiamo una foto in cui l'aereo è completo delle sue carene, non ha nulla di strano!

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Kingsford-Smith PL7 Tanker

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Chu CJC-3

1952

 

 

 

 

The Humming Bird light helicopter was designed by Major-General C.J. Chu in China during 1945. His Model A Humming Bird was a tiny coaxial helicopter with an enclosed fuselage pod and a 125hp Kinner engine, which was destroyed in ground testing. The subsequent Humming Bird B was similar, but it is not clear whether either helicopter flew - and the Humming Bird B was abandoned in China when Chu fled to Formosa. In 1952, he produced a small tandem-rotor helicopter known as the CJC-3 which was a side-by-side two-seater with a centrally-mounted 190hp Lycoming engine and fixed four-leg undercarriage. No further information is available.

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Kestrel Hawk

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Ma è un bellissimo aeroplano!

Westland "Goliath"

1952 - project

 

 

Westland Aircraft Company's giant helicopter of the future would have a single rotor of 60m diameter powered by tip-mounted turbo-jets. Designed to carry troops, guns, jeeps, and ammunition, it has entry ramps at both ends of the fuselage. Typical load might consist of 450 troops or three 15-ton tanks.

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Si parla di aerei "curiosi", non solo brutti.

 

 

 

LACAB GR 8

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Sikorsky HR2S-1W

1958

 

 

Some of the S-56 aircraft ordered by the Marine Corps were converted into radar patrol craft (military designation HR2S-1W), with a bulbous dielectric radome under the nose, but this transformation was unsuccessful.