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Unique Aircraft
Aircraft that can be considered unique in their design or flying attributes68 aircraft in this category
By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (NATO reporting name Firkin), was an experimental supersonic jet fighter developed by the JSC Sukhoi Company.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch is an aircraft built for Stratolaunch Systems by Scaled Composites to carry air-launch-to-orbit rocketsBy red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing High-Altitude Long Endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Rutan Model 202 Boomerang is an aircraft designed and built by Burt Rutan.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The NASA AD-1 was both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Myasishchev VM-T Atlant was a variant of Myasishchev's M-4 Molot bomber (the "3M"), re-purposed as a strategic-airlift airplane.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Grumman X-29 was an American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was an American experimental Modular aircraft first flown in 1950.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Edgley EA-7 Optica is a British light aircraft designed for low-speed observation work, and intended as a low-cost alternative to helicopters.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Douglas XB-43 Jetmaster is an American 1940s jet-powered prototype bomber.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft with a slender fuselage and a long tapered nose, manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket (or D-558-II) is a rocket and jet-powered research supersonic aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company for the United States Navy.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Convair XFY Pogo was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tail-sitter.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 was a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Bristol 188 is a British supersonic research aircraft built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the 1950s.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Boeing 747 Dreamlifter is a wide-body cargo aircraft modified extensively from the Boeing 747-400 airliner.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Beechcraft Model 34 "Twin-Quad" was a prototype airliner designed and built by Beechcraft in the period between World War II and the Korean War.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Airbus BelugaXL (A330-743L) is a large transport aircraft based on the Airbus A330-200 Freighter airliner.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or Beluga, is a version of the standard A300-600 wide-body airliner modified to carry aircraft parts and outsize cargo.By red750, in Unique Aircraft,
The Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy was a large, wide-bodied cargo aircraft built in the United States and used for ferrying outsized cargo items, most notably NASA's components of the Apollo program.By old man emu, in Unique Aircraft,
Blended wing four-seat cabin aircraft designed and built in the USSR from 1933.