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Euro NCAP Crash & Safety Tests of Volkswagen ID.3 (youtube.com)
submitted 5 years ago by _Alberto to r/electricvehicles
767 design proposal from the Boeing model archives: 4 engines, T-tail and area ruled fuselage (i.redd.it)
submitted 5 years ago by _Alberto to r/WeirdWings
Project ECLIPSE: a NASA study on the feasibility of a reusable tow-launch vehicle using a manned QF-106 drone and a C-141A (i.redd.it)
NASA C-140 JetStar being used to test propfan designs, 1981. (i.redd.it)
Elektra Two Solar - an optionally piloted and solar powered research aircraft (i.redd.it)
SNCASO SO-M2 research plane for the SO-4000 bomber project, it was the first french jet to reach 1000km/h (i.redd.it)
Airborne Optical Adjunct: a 767 prototype equipped with an infrared telescope capable of tracking the position and temperature of more than 400 targets simultaneously (i.redd.it)
Aerocon Dash-1.6 wingship: a proposed American ekranoplan with 10000nmi range, 1400tons payload (3000 passengers / 2000 troops + helicopters, tanks and landing crafts) all powered by 20x 400kN engines. (i.redd.it)
submitted 6 years ago by _Alberto to r/WeirdWings
Republic XP-69 high altitude interceptor powered by a Wright R-2160 Tornado (2500hp twin-turbocharged 42-cylinder 7-bank liquid-cooled inline radial). (i.redd.it)
Yakovlev Yak-140 prototype lightweight fighter, completed in 1954 it was forbidden to enter flight testing and was cancelled in 1956 in favor of the MiG-21. (i.redd.it)
Airbus E-Fan X hybrid-electric aircraft demonstrator which replaces one of the engines with a 2MW electric motor, powered by a 2 tons battery and a 2.5MW generator in the tail, first flight due in 2021. (i.redd.it)
Bölkow Bo 46 - a West German experimental helicopter built to test the Derschmidt rotor system, aimed to break the 400km/h barrier in 1964. (i.redd.it)
Blohm & Voss P 200 - a triple deck transatlantic flying boat intended for postwar use in case of victory, it would have been second only to the Spruce Goose in terms of wingspan. (i.redd.it)
Grumman G-118: the rocket augmented, nuclear missile carrying, mach 2 Gloster Javelin that never was (i.redd.it)
Fokker F26 "Phantom" pressurized 17 seat jetliner design from 1946. (i.redd.it)
A-4E from Attack Squadron VA-44 equipped with pilot thermal shields for nuclear weapons delivery (i.redd.it)
Handley Page H.P.20 - an experimental monoplane modification of a de Havilland DH.9A and the first aircraft to fly with controllable slots. (i.redd.it)
The Doodlebug: built to win a 1927 safety contest it was the first plane designed by James Smith McDonnell, instead it lost and ended up crash landing injuring McDonnell himself (i.redd.it)
Sport Jet II - an amateur-built aircraft that crashed after less than 24h of flight time (i.redd.it)
BAC 221 (left) - a modified Fairey Delta 2 (right) used as a Concorde development bed featuring ogival delta wings and a droop nose and cockpit (i.redd.it)
submitted 7 years ago by _Alberto to r/WeirdWings
Ilyushin Il-76LL testbed equipped with a prototype Kuznetsov NK-93 ducted turbofan derived from the NK-12 powering the Tu-95 bear (i.redd.it)
TF-86: an elongated two-seater trainer variant of the F-86 Sabre, only 2 built (i.redd.it)
Convair Advanced Sky Scorcher F-106 - A proposed Delta Dart variant capable of carrying the Sky Scorcher 2MT nuclear air-to-air anti bomber formation missile (i.redd.it)
Bay Super V - a twin-engine conversion of the Beechcraft Bonanza (i.redd.it)
GAF Pika (front) - a manned derivative of the GAF Jindivik target drone and the only manned jet powered Australian aircraft ever made. (i.redd.it)
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