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#4FavItalianAeroplanes
Macchi M.33, Macchi M.C.72
Savoia-Marchetti S.55, Caproni Campini N.1
#4FavFrenchAeroplanes
Ader Éole, Antionette IV
Latécoère 631, Mirage III F2
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Santa's sleigh, as designed by Jaguar. Various car manufacturers, including Aston Martin, Rolls Royce and Land Rover submitted concepts to CAR Magazine back in 2008-2010
(https://t.co/zapQPbExga)
@churchill_alex @ProfPeterDoyle @classicwarbirds @BoneyAbroad @CrossCockade @PeterHart1915 @PikeGrey1418 @DanHillHistory @thehistoryguy @TheBrownBeagle I don’t quite have the willpower, but I’d like to say hi and contribute something on this glummest of days, so I’d have to say that the final answer is of course the SR-71
as everyone should know, it’s the anniversary of the somewhat notable Wright Brothers jaunt, on this day in 1903.
I was reminded of this oldie from the Perry Bible Fellowship..
hightly acceptable art from Rasmus Poulsen
(https://t.co/DHUprlHUV6)
military surplus S/VTOL aircraft laying down topsoil - in order to create agriculture in a remote arid region.
from an article in the FLIGHT International 75th Anniversary special, 21/04/84, by John E. Allen - imagining aviation in the year 2059. Art by Frank Munger
art by the great Stan Mott, who also "drove a gokart around the world from February 1961 to July 1964, through 28 countries, starting and ending in New York City"
(via https://t.co/iE4AIUtA54)
"..and is convinced that ordinary aeroplanes are built on wrong principles.
His machine has 2 sets of rotor vanes, motor driven, each projecting a stream of compressed air under the fuselage.
If his theory is correct, expansion of the air streams will lift the insect plane” (2/2)