And One More

Not as weird, but still rather unusual. A Britten Norman Defender with Dowty fan propulsor units.

I’ve Opened It Up To All Weird Planes

That’s not the Belfegor, it was the An-2 testbed to do some work on the M-15s design. The actual Belfegor was of course the coolest cropduster ever to enter production.

And i think we should be getting back on topic. I usually don’t mind derailments, but putting weird and ancient designs here instead of grotesquely modified ones… naah, shouldn’t do that.

I opened this thread up to weird aircraft in general in a previous posting, so feel free to post anything you think looks odd. Many thanks for all the weird, odd, and grotesque planes you’ve posted so far!

I wonder why…

This is more or less extreme rather than weird:

Convair NB-36H Atomic powered Experimental Aircraft

http://www.airbornegrafix.com/HistoricAircraft/ClassicAC/B36.htm

…the cockpit canopy area is so thick? Lead shielding, perhaps? But wait- this was the ’50s! The reactor was probably in the cockpit.

I could have had a V.8!

The Fokker V.8. Because the Dr.1 got really boring after Albatros, and Pfalz, and all those other companies copied Fokker copying Sopwith.

If we’re posting pics of ‘silly planes’ rather than ‘Aircraft With Weird-Looking Modifications’ – then how about the Soviet Kalinin K-7 ?

SIX tractor engines, one pusher, capability of 120 passengers or 7t cargo.

Developed as a bomber.

In flight access to all engines, minimum crew 11 :- two pilots, nav/bomb aimer, radio/gunner (nose 20mm), engineer, FOUR gunners (twin DA) in cockpits at front & rear of gondolas and two gunners (20mm) at tips of tail booms.

It flew in 1933 but broke up during speed tests

Ken

What the heck, let’s open it up to weird-looking planes in general, since we’ve already started down that road. Speaking of, how about the Airspeed AS.31? Airspeed came up with this unique single-engine fighter; its pilot was to be housed in an egg-shaped cockpit situated far behind the wing to enhance visibility during take-offs and landings. However, wind tunnel tests revealed that this odd arrangement would produce intolerable G-forces during high-speed turns, and the project was abandoned.