The most ridiculous aircraft design

[sparky42]

Well, it's supposed to take off from this:
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Why? I mean just what were they thinking?

 

[Insider]

What... They designed a perfectly ok aircraft carrier and then decided it would launch its aircraft vertically... even though it has standard horizontal catapult... Did they received stamps collection from Mk-Ultra?

 

[Zheng He]

The Spruce Goose is pretty ridiculous although it did fly, briefly...

 

[Hood]

What... They designed a perfectly ok aircraft carrier and then decided it would launch its aircraft vertically... even though it has standard horizontal catapult... Did they received stamps collection from Mk-Ultra?

I'd say they take off normally, and just land vertically

 

[Insider]

I'd say they take off normally, and just land vertically

So instead for scrambing and launching 4-6 fighters in one minute in case of emergency (that could be some explanation) with vertical launchers, they decided to make them start one by one, in traditional way, but land in the hardest way they could concieve.
Yeah
Because that has even less sense ...

 

[Admiral Beez]

The Spruce Goose is pretty ridiculous although it did fly, briefly...

Had it in service a six years earlier or so, could it have carried reinforcements to Midway and the Philippines?

Per Wikipedia, "it was designed to carry 150,000 pounds, 750 fully equipped troops or two 30-ton M4 Sherman tanks."

 

[Landshark]

It's going to be very tough to beat that... that.

Actually the V173 is supposed to have had considerable potential. It's one of those designs like the Douglas Mix Master that came just too late to be fully explored.

 

[Hood]

So instead for scrambing and launching 4-6 fighters in one minute in case of emergency (that could be some explanation) with vertical launchers, they decided to make them start one by one, in traditional way, but land in the hardest way they could concieve.
Yeah
Because that has even less sense ...

I'm just going by what I see in the pictures..
Anyway,It's a stupid f*cking idea no matter what way you put it..

 

[sparky42]

I'm just going by what I see in the pictures..
Anyway,It's a stupid f*cking idea no matter what way you put it..

Given the loss rate on the Harrier, I could only imagine the losses for it.

 

[Zheng He]

Had it in service a six years earlier or so, could it have carried reinforcements to Midway and the Philippines?

Per Wikipedia, "it was designed to carry 150,000 pounds, 750 fully equipped troops or two 30-ton M4 Sherman tanks."

I wonder if it actually could have flown. I know Hughes got it up in the air for a short period of time (barely) but was it really viable?

 

[Driftless]

Just because you CAN do something, does not make it a good idea....

 

[Admiral Beez]

I wonder if it actually could have flown. I know Hughes got it up in the air for a short period of time (barely) but was it really viable?

There were some very large transports that had some success in WW2, including the Messerschmitt Me 323, Blohm & Voss BV 238

 

[zert]

The Caproni Ca60 - would have been at home in the Armada.

This is something from an alt steam/diesel punk story. Just way too much to try to comprehend.

 

[Kevin Renner]

Goodyear Inflatoplane

http://www.trivials.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/goodyear-inflatoplane.jpg

Boeing Stratoliner, ok its a conversioN

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nBN6Nx0xWn4/maxresdefault.jpg

Polish crop duster

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4ddhOPdQA9w/hqdefault.jpg

 

[trurle]

Of modern designs, the Rotary Rocket may be most ridiculous. Handling was bad enough for even the professional test pilots to gave up.

 

[riggerrob]

Any French bomber from the 1930s.

 

[riggerrob]

Half of the Luft'46 Wunderwaffens.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Any French bomber from the 1930s.

Amiot 354, Bloch MB.170 and Lioré et Olivier LeO 45 were okay. Granted, these are late 1930s.

 

[Driftless]

Of modern designs, the Rotary Rocket may be most ridiculous. Handling was bad enough for even the professional test pilots to gave up.
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That truck looks suspiciously like the manure haulers I see coming from farms in my area..... Just sayin'.....

 

[Zheng He]

Here you go: