Awesome WW2 experimental Aircraft

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A-7 autogyro.

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The Blackburn B.20 is cool.My interest is in the fact of what it offered and my regret is that after building it, a fitting came loose and it crashed. It was then forgotten. Of significance was the fact that the aircraft which won the design competition for the specification had been favored into production from the start, the infamous Saro Lerwick, which could neither plane as a boat nor fly as an aircraft worth beans. The ubiquitous Consolidated PBY Catalina had to, and did fill the role famously.
 

Don Quijote

Banned
The Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) for a practical aircraft that saw flight...
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...and the utterly bizarre Fw Triebflugel for one that didn't.
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The "mixmaster" is, in fact, the trade name of a blender that was contemporaneous with the Douglas aircraft - hence the name.
 
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The Martin AM Mauler as heavy on the potential weapon load as it was on the required maintenance load - and for that last reason was replaced by the Skyraider - but just look at it - that is mk13 3 torps and 12 x 250 pound bombs!!!

Tested from late Aug 44 - it took 3 years to iron out the issues
 

Wimble Toot

Banned
I prefer the XP-72 myself

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more aesthetically pleasing

The Rolls-Royce Eagle Tempest (P1027) would have been a mean aircraft, but it never left the drawing board

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So many of these pusher aircraft look like they really wanted to be jets but weren't quite ready yet.
I get the same impression and the Shinden was first designed as a pusher prop plane and then redesigned to take a jet engine, I believe only the prop version was ever built though.
 
All those contra-rotating pusher prop blades look NASTY!
Intercepting a Mixmaster or Northrup flying wing would be as much fun as biting a porcupine in the butt!
 
The Martin AM Mauler as heavy on the potential weapon load as it was on the required maintenance load - and for that last reason was replaced by the Skyraider - but just look at it - that is mk13 3 torps and 12 x 250 pound bombs!!!

Tested from late Aug 44 - it took 3 years to iron out the issues

She had two names. As the Douglas AD Skyraider was Able Dog, while the Martin was either Able Mable, or Awful Monster
 

The problem with the flying pancake [flapjack] (XF5U) was that the engines were buried mid-wing and thus had a transmission and engine out PTO drive and gearing. These shafts were long and spindly. And the thing vibrated like a banjo. it was dangerous to fly and mechanically complex to build and maintain. I think the roll-out to take off should read 190 feet. (V-173).
 
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