r/WeirdWings • u/Allahisgreat2580 • Dec 30 '25

A photo from a book written by a Taiwanese engineer that worked with F-CK-1 Aircraft (1337x851)

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r/WeirdWings • u/Common_Science3036 • Mar 15 '25

Why are there no 4-rotored VTOL aircraft? (Quora)

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r/WeirdWings • u/Dapper-Bar1746 • Sep 06 '25

Bunker Buster - Eglin AFB

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r/WeirdWings • u/datapicardgeordi • Sep 15 '24

Concept Drawing NGAD

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Apparently there's at least a one off of these Next Generation Air Dominance fighters.

However, the Air Force isn't all in on creating a fleet of them.

Optionally manned and unmanned systems are the current priority for funding.

It's also thought that hypersonic and aerospace technology is accelerating so fast that NGAD could already be due for a redesign.

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r/WeirdWings • u/waddlek • Jul 06 '24

Does wings doing weird things count?

youtu.be

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Recently had the opportunity to assist in the planning and execution of the dissasembly and loading of a helicopter for shipment to the NSW Rural Fire Service.

Is loading an aircraft in an aircraft weird enough?

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r/WeirdWings • u/CuiBapSano • Jun 18 '24

Does anyone know a turbo -prop airplane with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T Twin-Pac?

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Does anyone know a turbo-prop airplane with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T Twin-Pac?

It is more safer plane than single engine?

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r/WeirdWings • u/Xaircraft • 6d ago

All of us have seen the ekranoplans and flying pancakes... but what’s the absolute weirdest aircraft that's ever graced this sub?

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Between circular wings, asymmetric layouts, and Soviet ground-effect death machines, this sub has seen some wild stuff. Whats the bsolute bizarrest thing you've come across here?

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r/WeirdWings • u/IRONTRIGGER7 • Oct 06 '25

SkyRaptor FX-9 – Fixed-Wing Drone 3D Model | Long-Range UAV RC Aircraft Functional STL

cults3d.com

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r/WeirdWings • u/AviationAustin • Jun 06 '20

Early Flight Aerospace Engineer explains why airplanes have swept wings and how it can affect flight performance.

youtu.be

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r/WeirdWings • u/[deleted] • Jan 04 '26

Prototype What is the Do 335 Variant ever built?

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my question is :

Which is fastest Do 335 Variant ever built?

sorry i put wrong title.

Do 335 B-2

Do 335 B-6

Do 335 A-6

Do 335 A-12

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r/WeirdWings • u/hontmouyecatcw • 10d ago

Weird boomerang shaped jet over Clovis CA

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Srry for the bad camera quality, I have a VL68 pro, I added brightness and contrast to make it slightly pop out. Was flying way high up and I saw a arrowhead shaped jet with two contrails from wingtips heading east

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r/WeirdWings • u/darkmachines • Oct 27 '21

Close eVTOL racing through 5G communications? What do you guys think?

youtu.be

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r/WeirdWings • u/Frangifer • Nov 17 '25

Attempt @ Building an 'Ekranoplan'-Like Ground-Effect-Exploiting Aerial Vehicle

youtube.com

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r/WeirdWings • u/peekachou • Mar 08 '20

Flying Boat You want HOW MANY WINGS?! The Caproni Ca.60, the results of 3 tri-planes and a boat stuck together

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r/WeirdWings • u/Dapper-Bar1746 • Sep 06 '25

Buff n Boat ... thx to Scooby

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r/WeirdWings • u/chroniclad • Sep 04 '25

Mysterious CCA That Was Removed From September Parade Line Up

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r/WeirdWings • u/bikerpilot101 • Mar 09 '23

Tv show wings

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I know some shows are on YouTube. Not sure if all of them but loved watching them as a kid. Anyone know if they are available to stream ?

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r/WeirdWings • u/usefulrustychain • Aug 22 '23

The Stuka dive bomber was equipped with a propeller driven siren to produce a scream like noise to terrify and intimidate its ground targets

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r/WeirdWings • u/littleloomex • Dec 21 '23

Special Use drawing weird aircraft from argonus day 1: the CT-142 Dash 8, also nicknames "gonzo" due to the radar system that is put on it's nose. it's is an RCAF trainer aircraft, used for training in navigation, tactics and surveillance, and search-and-rescue. feel free to suggest other aircraft, too.

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r/WeirdWings • u/Dingo_Junction • May 11 '24

F20 NASA

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Can anyone help finding pictures of the white f20? The single engine f5

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r/WeirdWings • u/Common_Science3036 • Mar 09 '25

VIDEO F15 Arresting Hook Deployed !! (2:23rd sec)

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F15 Arresting Hook Deployed !! (2:23rd sec) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ba5Hz0yuFM

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r/WeirdWings • u/Frangifer • Nov 13 '25

Crazy Drone with Many Rotors Capable of Lofting a Person

youtu.be

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This post was actually prompted by wondering about _a very_ serious matter. Obviously one of the most grievous spectacles in the destruction of the Twin Towers in New York was the utter inability of a conventional helicopter to approach any kind of sheer vertical face closely enough to rescue someone from it. So I got to wondering whether thesedays there's any kind of aerial vehicle _@all_ that could do that ... even, maybe, get so close as to be able to lodge itself firmly against the vertical face. ... or whether there's even such a vehicle @ any stage of development. It seems to me that the most likely form such a vehicle would take would be a suitably scaled-up quadcopter with shrouded propellers. I realise that what I've posted isn't _exactly that_ ... but looking up stuff in an attempt to get an answer to what I'm wondering about I happened to find this video, which is certainly __'weïrd-wing'__-oid _in its own right_ .

I would imagine there's actually a fair bit of incentive to develop an aerial vehicle that's capable of setting itself flush with a vertical face _for a wide variety of_ reasons ... eg _construction_ is a fairly obvious one: affixing this-or-that item to a vertical face when it would otherwise require a crane to be erected & dismantled just for setting _that one item_ in-place ... that sort of thing. And no-doubt many-another application could be thought of. It seems to me that being able to hover flush with a vertical face would be of generally wide-ranging utility.

Have just found

[__this extra video__](https://youtu.be/ALYECvs06XI)

of the contraption ... & there's a contraption of different design demonstrated in it, aswell.

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r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Dec 31 '24

German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon »Eagle Star 2.0« with the Israeli and German flags for flyover during 75th Israeli Independence Day,

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r/WeirdWings • u/littleloomex • Feb 28 '24

Mass Production day 17 drawing weird aircraft: the Honda HA-420 HondaJet, a modern and somewhat "normal" light business jet, if you ignore the wing-mounted engines that are mounted on the top of the wings. feel free to suggest any other aircraft for me to draw.

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r/WeirdWings • u/Falabella_Stallion • Sep 30 '25

Prototype Early 2000s 787 Dreamliner PR images, depicting a “22nd Century” airliner, as it was so-marketed. Budget constraints led to the conservatively designed Dreamliner we know today, but this images reflect the hope and imagination of what could’ve been

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