Experimental Aircraft From The Fifties

But if you want 100 per cent British oddities, just go for a stroll round Cosford.

Stroll around any high street. 🙂

I wasnt refering to Cosford’s “exhibits”…

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neither is the Smithsonian’s collection all oddities, to say we didn’t experiment with strange Aircraft in the 50s is totally wrong

I just don’t understand why it was so American, perhaps the Telegraph picked it up from the US and ran with it,

one thing, the flying saucer was made in Canada by Avro Canada,

But if you want 100 per cent British oddities, just go for a stroll round Cosford.

I appreciate that most of the visitors to Cosford come from the West Midlands…

but they’re not ALL oddities….:dev2:

The Telegraph headline is a tad misleading as the article is actually “a selection of the experimental flying oddities dreamed up by aeronautical engineers SINCE the 1950s” rather than solely from that period.

Jon

The Boeing X-48 was sort of British, built in the UK by Cranfield Aerospace. But if you want 100 per cent British oddities, just go for a stroll round Cosford.

The X3 – the sleekest slowest aircraft that ever was.

The Shorts SC1 always looked like it should be on the Inventory of Thunderbirds!

what about the flying bedstead and other VTOL projects

The caption of the first picture refers to “experimental flying oddities” – do any of the British experimental aircraft you have in mind class as ‘oddities’?

Some of thos pictured are certainly very odd; most of them I was not previously aware of.

sadly no British Aircraft, what about Fairey, Saunders Roe, Avro and all the others that built experimental Aircraft