Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects

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Unbuilt and cancelled aviation projects since 1945. Designs that never made it into production.
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Suggested for executive and transport aircraft
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BAe Hush
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Russian experimental sailplane
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BAC R.14 variable geometry aircraft
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Wibault strange aircraft project of 1948
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Boeing QSP studies (military and civil)
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Antonio
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MOVED: Three helicopter projects
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Antonio
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FLAC/SHARC
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Modus rotorcraft concept
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Kim Margosein
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Folland unknown fighter project
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Mirage IVM weapon(s)?
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Maveric
Association Zephyr "Alize"
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Carlo Kopp APA stealth fighter
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overscan (PaulMM)
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Keyte Gemini light aircraft
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British strange flying saucer
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Brabazon II spec airliners
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Antonio
A-4 Skyhawk Rival designs
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China Flight Test Establishment video
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RAF in 1975 with TSR 2 etc
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Boeing studied five transonic aircraft from 1970s
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1997 Taiwan Chung Sang Institute turboprop aircraft project
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1960 French "Avions de coopération" competition
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MIRAGE 4000
MIRAGE 4000
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Boeing high speed airliner of 2002
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Aerfer XS.1 ZEL interceptor - 1959
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Airspeed Flying Boat jet fighter
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Lippisch "Arctur"
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Soviet "Tom Tom" project
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Lippisch "Aerodyne" airliner projects
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Justo Miranda
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Private twin boom jet aircraft of 1940s
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Just call me Ray
Just call me Ray
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Aero-Products Chameleon Light Fighter
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Pepe Rezende
Pepe Rezende
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B-36 w/turboprop
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Beech Fanjet aircraft
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Type 583 vs Phantom (Spey or J79 version)
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21
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BAe FSW light combat aircraft
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USN XNQ-1 competition
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shinmaywa SS-X and aeritaria AIT 460
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SIPA S.273 « Elan »
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Jemiba
Jemiba
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The Skyhopper STOL aircraft
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Kawasaki KAC-201
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GAF "Bellata"
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Dewoitine trainer project
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Stop-fold patent?
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General Dynamics 1990 Mach 5,5 hypersonic vehicle
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John21
Project Grassblade
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Apophenia
BAC - Beaver Aircraft Canada
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8
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Apophenia
Apophenia
Jemiba
Lockheed QSP studies (military and civil)
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18
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McDonnell Douglas 60s 70s swing wing military aircraft
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1
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Raytheon (Beechcraft) QSP SSBJ projects
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2004 Northrop Grumman 'Special Purpose Unmanned Air Vehicle'
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B-58 LACE testbed
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Russian CRW helicopter
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Anglo-American VTOL Conference 1961 - some designs from GE
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Heinkel He 212 ?
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Myasishchev M-62 Oryol (Eagle) - Soviet Condorski
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Lockheed T-40A Jetstar
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Russian answer to High Altitude Airship (HAA)
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What Helicopter is this?
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Apophenia
Apophenia
Matej
Unknown civil tiltrotor
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2
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JAZZ
UCAV's converted from existing aircraft
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Jemiba
Jemiba
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Mystery VTOL air ambulance project from Germany
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C-160 Transall with Air Refueling BOOM
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Sikorsky Reverse Velocity Rotor (RVR) concept
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Lockheed 1983 study based on highly mutato, JT-69 2D TVC engined YF-12
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Unusual Meteor
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Jodel (Joly-Delemontez) projects
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Boeing Advanced Systems 1989 High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) RPV
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Saunders-Roe (Saro) P.507 ultra-light helicopter
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Modus disc-rotor VTOL project
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yasotay
yasotay
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ST Aero & DSTA LALEE
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Postwar French competitions
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Avro Vulcan as a carrier for parasite aircraft or drones
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Modern Velociraptor: serious project?
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Jemiba
Jemiba
MIRAGE 4000
Dassault Projects - the Alpha Jet "Lancier"
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Iluyshin 2003 IL-114TOP Gunship project
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NASA 1962 Bomber patent
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overscan (PaulMM)
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Rutan Boomerang proof concept
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Orionblamblam
*THIS* is why I have to charge for books...
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17
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Strange design by IPT
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Shorts P.D. 75 (British Unbuilt Jet Airliner Design)
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Fighters in the TSR 2-HS 1154 RAF
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The Republic F-105H Thunderchief design proposal
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Aircraft from different countries
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McDD STOL transport
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7
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TinWing
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TinWing
1970-73 Vintage Su-27 Proposals....Compared to Rockwell's (V)FX Contender?
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National Geographic, January 1981
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Kissinger-Crookes
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Jemiba
variable geometry Caravelle contender
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Jemiba
The typical lines of a Mirage ...
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Jemiba
SNCASO (Sud-Ouest) SO.M1
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Skybolt
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"Avrocar" successors
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8
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AWACs refitted from combat aircraft
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The Thing - what the hell is this?
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OSKBES MAI I-90 scale testbed (1982)
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Jemiba
Early french Biz Jets
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Sentinel Chicken
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NEWS: Clean engines, wings that fold: Boeing dreams of futuristic jets
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