20 BIZARRE Planes & the Stories Behind Them

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Wing-less planes, flying saucers and inflatable aircraft?!?!? You're not dreaming, these fellas are some of the oddest planes you'll ever encounter (likely not) in the skies. While these planes may look bizarre, many of them were built to test out the theories engineers had in the yet unknown field of aerodynamics. The results they have helped discover inspired some of the most iconic planes today like the B-2 Spirit.

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1:04 Aerodyne
1:39 AvroCar
2:22 NASA AD-1
3:11 Eurocopter X3
3:59 Nemeth Parasol
4:28 Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake"
5:04 Northrop Tacit Blue
5:36 Stratolaunch
6:09 Sikorsky X-Wing
6:33 Hughes H-4 Hercules
7:09 Lockheed Martin P-791
7:40 McDonnell XF-85 Goblin
8:14 Goodyear Inflatoplane
8:56 Caspean Sea Monster Ekranoplan
9:28 Edgley Optica
9:59 Solar Impulse 1 & 2
10:42 Gossamer Albatross
11:18 Super Guppy
11:55 Kalinin K-7
12:25 Scaled Composites Proteus

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