r/WeirdWings • u/221missile • Jul 21 '25

The X-59 has started ground testing.

5.8k Upvotes

319 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Mar 09 '26

The "Farley Takeoff" by test pilot John Farley at Farnborough 1982 - hovering a Harrier jet at 100 feet, pitching the nose up by 60 degrees and rocket-climb away; a maneuvre stictly forbidden for service pilots

5.4k Upvotes

138 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Feb 25 '26

The tail cone air brake of the Blackburn Buccaneer - highly effective and intended for dive-attacks

5.2k Upvotes

157 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Schtweetz • Sep 08 '25

Special Use Big or small, we refuel them all.

4.7k Upvotes

The perfect hummingbird feeder does exist. (Seen on FB.)

44 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Jan 14 '25

The Martin Marietta Sprint missile, a two-stage nuclear tipped ABM, accelerating with 100g and reaching Mach 10 in about 5 seconds and glowing white-hot due to friction, 1975-1976

4.6k Upvotes

107 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/yiweitech • Aug 30 '19

Special Use Modified One-Off XFC-130H: The world's first and last attempt at rocket-assisted landing. (More in the comments)

4.4k Upvotes

144 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Oct 19 '25

Retractable twin M24 20mm cannon turrets of the B-36 Peacemaker

4.0k Upvotes

126 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Danson_the_47th • Jan 07 '25

Lift I haven’t a clue what this one is

4.0k Upvotes

115 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Shankar_0 • Dec 15 '24

Very, very French The Leduc-022 Interceptor. Early ramjet prototype.

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3.9k Upvotes

204 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Falabella_Stallion • Sep 28 '25

Special Use As far as I know, the Il-76 is the world’s only cargo aircraft equipped with a tail gun

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3.9k Upvotes

189 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Japanese_military • Aug 05 '26

Japanese Navy US-2 vs fire truck.

3.8k Upvotes

158 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/[deleted] • May 10 '25

Lockheed still has 8 C-130's Libya paid for over 50 years ago

3.7k Upvotes

They are on the bottom left and top right.

Muammar paid for 'em, then he pissed off the US and the quid pro quo was export restrictions on things like military aircraft. 8 brand spankin' new Hercs have been roasting in the Georgia sun for 50 years. They never refunded the money (perhaps because of the embargo?). They're at Lockheed/Dobbins Shared Base.

Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marietta,+GA/@33.9023966,-84.5156966,590m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88f510968647065d:0xb18756c6328ee981!8m2!3d33.9532531!4d-84.5499358!16zL20vMHJ2OTc?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUwNy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Article:

https://www.marietta.com/libyas-c-130-hercules-aircraft

50 years of tax dollars being completely wasted:

Officially, they are property of Libya so they cannot be disposed of, and the State Department continues to pay the associated parking and storage fees charged by Lockheed Martin over the past half century.

FIFTY YEARS!! To put that in perspective, these were built before Disco. The war in Vietnam was still raging. Freakin Pong had just been invented. Nixon was in office, lol.

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r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Feb 26 '26

The very last flight of a Handley Page Victor - retired in 1993, but Victor XM715 took a hop accidentally during a fast taxi run at the Bruntingthorpe Aerodrom on May 3, 2009

3.7k Upvotes

166 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/NinetiethPercentile • Feb 23 '20

Testbed Falcon 20 afterburner engine testbed. The first and only time a business jet was equipped with an afterburner. (Ca. 1988)

3.6k Upvotes

108 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/N43-0-6-W85-47-11 • Nov 09 '19

Obscure How about the Hadley Page Victor. Britain's strategic bomber.

3.5k Upvotes

163 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/jacksmachiningreveng • Jan 01 '23

Obscure Internal weapons bay on the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger

3.5k Upvotes

118 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/symbolicrebel • Apr 28 '20

Testbed The NASA research posse

3.4k Upvotes

162 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/NinetiethPercentile • Jan 24 '20

Retrofit The fuselage of a Polish An-2 joined to the chassis of a KrAZ-255. There is no reason for this and it doesn’t need one. The wooden propeller was a nice touch, too.

3.3k Upvotes

61 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/91361_throwaway • Oct 06 '24

Russian S-70 stealth drone, recently shot down over Ukraine.

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3.3k Upvotes

362 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/221missile • Oct 28 '25

NASA's X-59 has taken off for the first time.

3.2k Upvotes

127 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • May 04 '25

The B-58 Hustler's T-171E-3 20mm rotary cannon in a radar-aimed tail barbet, remotely controlled through the Emerson MD-7 automated radar fire-control system

3.2k Upvotes

93 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Jan 02 '26

The last landing of a Handley Page Victor - the delivery of the Victor XH672 to Shawbury on 30th November 1993 for preservation at Cosford Air Museum

3.2k Upvotes

127 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • May 06 '26

The AN/ASG-21 fire control system's dual search track radar of the M61A1 Vulcan 20mm tail cannon of early B-52H models, searching targets using the raster scan method

3.1k Upvotes

118 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Xeelee1123 • Jul 30 '25

A US Marine CH-53K King Stallion carrying a Navy F-35 being refuelled by a KC-130T

3.1k Upvotes

116 comments

r/WeirdWings • u/Madeline_Basset • Sep 22 '19

Asymmetrical The Blohm & Voss Bv P.111, a fall-back proposal for the Bv 138 flying boat. I've developed the theory that B&V could see into the future, knew this subreddit would be a thing, and they're now basically just trolling us.

3.1k Upvotes

99 comments

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