Those magnificent, Crazy, Almost non-Flying Machines!

Aeronautics has inspired some really crazy designs. Necessarily so since we were never really designed to fly. Many of the machines would never have left the ground even if built. They remained pipe dreams.
However, some of the really crazy designs did work. The contraptions did fly, after a fashion.

Here is a list of 25 curious looking air craft that flew.

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  • zaveri
    zaveri
    The Vought V-173, the "Flying Pancake" looks like as if its body design has been inspired from sting rays.
  • durga ch
    durga ch
    "De Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle flying" is that even real :??? one doubts how a soldier can maintian his balance at such high altitudes? oh! at what height it might fly??


    ad per design , seems its the most simplest one, but surely caught my curiosity

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