r/WeirdWings • • 10h ago

Lenticular and lenticular-winged supersonic bomber concepts - Glenn L. Martin Company, 1950s

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421 Upvotes

r/WeirdWings • • 11h ago

Rare photos of Honda's 1988 B2 mockup at the Everglades Jetport

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Stumbled upon these obscure photos of a flying wing while digging into some Florida Everglades history.  I found them on the Facebook profile of Carol Lord, whose family operated Monroe Station nearby and who later worked as a security guard at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport - aka, the Everglades Jetport!

Anyways, this isn't a new discovery; it is known that a B2 mockup was built for Honda in 1988 for use in a CRX commercial.  Jalopnik wrote an article about it in 2013 and there's been a few posts about it on Reddit throughout the years.  Sadly it appears the museum that eventually owned it scrapped it some 20+ years ago.  Here's another link with a bit more about it from someone who was involved with the commercial: https://aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/south-dakota-air-space-museum/

I hadn't seen these pictures posted anywhere before so I figured they were worth sharing!


r/WeirdWings • • 6h ago

World Record The flight engineer station of the B-36 Peacemaker - the plane with likely the longest pre-flight checklist

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r/WeirdWings • • 14h ago

Propulsion Was this flying wing that was spotted over Texas and Kansas in 2014 the RQ-180

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