Goblin
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was a fighter aircraft, conceived during World War II and intended to be carried in the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a defensive “parasite fighter”. Because of its small and rotund appearance, it was nicknamed “The Flying Egg”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-85_Goblin
Crazy, but works!!!
The rotary engine was an early type of internal-combustion engine, usually designed with an odd number of cylinders per row in a radial configuration, in which the crankshaft remained stationary and the entire cylinder block rotated around it. The design was used mostly in the years shortly before and during World War I to power aircraft, and also saw use in a few early motorcycles and cars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine
Rotary engine bike
The Megola had a unique design: it boasted a Monosoupape rotary engine mounted within the front wheel. The engine contained five cylinders with side-mounted valves and it displaced 640 cc (39 cu in), a total size equivalent to many modern bikes. The crankshaft was the front axle, which remained stationary while the cylinders rotated with the wheel. A hand-controlled butterfly valve was located in the hollow crankshaft to regulate throttle. Power output was a meagre 14 bhp (10 kW) but was applied directly to the wheel. This arrangement produced a very low centre of gravity and provided for excellent handling.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megola
Rotary engine car
Adams-Farwell was a brass era American automobile manufacturer from Dubuque, Iowa, founded by Herbert and Eugene Adams and Fay Oliver Farwell at the end of the 19th century.
From 1889 to 1905 they built five prototypes of a car with 20 to 25 horsepower (19 kW) air-cooled three-cylinder rotary engine with a vertical crankshaft over the rear axle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams-Farwell
Poor man’s boat
Dubai is the current name of a yacht currently owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai and the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. This vessel is 524 feet, 10 inches (162 m) long, is the second largest yacht in the world after Eclipse.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_%28yacht%29
Rotary engine planes
The Sopwith Camel was a British World War I single-seat fighter biplane introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It had a combination of a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. The Camel was credited with shooting down 1,294 enemy aircraft, more than any other Allied fighter in the First World War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Camel
The Fokker Dr.I Dreidecker (triplane) was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918. It became renowned as the aircraft in which Manfred von Richthofen gained his last 20 victories, and in which he was killed on 21 April 1918.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_Dr.I
Window blind plane
Horatio Frederick Phillips (born 1845 in Streatham[1] – 1924) was an early aviation pioneer from Great Britain. He was famous for building multiplanes with many more sets of lift surfaces (sustainers, as he called them) than would be normal on modern aircraft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Phillips
HotelHelicopter
Funny, very funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/hotelicopter.asp
(Sorry if this is a repost, but this is FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Antonov Jet
The An-225 Mriya (Ukrainian: Ðнтонов Ðн-225 МріÑ, NATO reporting name: ‘Cossack’) is a strategic airlift transport aircraft which was built by the Antonov Design Bureau (Kyiv, Kharkiv in Ukraine) during the Soviet era, and is the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. The design, built to transport the Buran orbiter, was an enlargement of the successful An-124 Ruslan. Mriya (МрiÑ) means “Dream” (Inspiration) in Ukrainian.
The Antonov An-225 is commercially available for flying any over-sized payload due to the unique size of its cargo deck. Currently there is only one aircraft operating.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-225
Howard Hughes’ BIG DICK
The Hughes H-4 Hercules (registration NX37602) was a prototype heavy transport aircraft designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft company. The aircraft made its only flight on November 2, 1947. Built from wood because of wartime raw material restrictions on the use of aluminum, it was nicknamed the “Spruce Goose” by its critics. The Hercules is the largest flying boat ever built, and has the largest wingspan and height of any aircraft in history. It survives in good condition at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
Beautifull planes
The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative stagger (the lower wing is further forward than the upper wing), that first flew in 1932.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggerwing
The Sequoia F.8L Falco is a lightweight 2-seater aerobatic aircraft, sold in kit or plans form for self-assembly by the Sequoia Aircraft Company of Richmond, Virginia. The aircraft is single-engined, propeller driven and designed for private and general aviation use.
The aircraft was designed by the renowned Italian designer Stelio Frati in 1955, and originally built in Italy by Aeromere (later Laverda) for sale, but the design was adopted in the US in the 1980s and converted to kit form. The aircraft is widely considered to be one of the best handling, strongest, and most aesthetically pleasing designs ever made available to home builders. The makers call it “the Ferrari of the air”, and like the car, it is very expensive compared with most homebuild kits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Falco
VTOL nigthmares
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_XFV
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-13_Vertijet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY-1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_XFV-12
Mah wallpaper collection
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It’s just a small part.
Obama Punch
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Taekwondo during his tril to S. Korea.
[Insert political commentary here]
Nuclear powered aircrafts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-119
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_X-6
Main article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_powered_aircraft
TruBlood Wallpaper
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Question of the Day
Sooooo … would this be covered under house insurance, car insurance or does this fall within the realm of roadside assistance?
Poutine
A deliciously unhealthy dish from our friends up north. I’ve personally never had it but I can imagine how awesome it is.
Them Crooked Vultures
Supergroup involving David Grohl of Foo Fighters on drums, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age on guitar and vocals, and the legendary John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin on bass and keys. Amazing.
NERVA
NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application. It was a design for a nuclear thermal rocket engine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rockets
Bimodal Nuclear Thermal Rockets – conduct nuclear fission reactions similar to those safely employed at nuclear power plants including submarines. The energy is used to heat the liquid hydrogen propellant. Courtesy of NASA Glenn Research Center
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_propulsion
Soviet nuclear thermal propulsion
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www.astronautix.com/articles/sovermal.htm
