Come one, come all, wittness the aviation freak show!

[SOLIDKREATE]

Show us the oddities that you find online or in books that you can't identify and let's see if we can help!

 

I'll go first!

 

 

[AndyJWest]

That is the Leduc 0.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leduc_0.22

[MarcoRossolini]

Looks like an F-104 got caught up in the wash...

[Feathered_IV]

Caproni Ca.60

Not just a crap aircraft, but a damned fine block of flats.

 

[FlatSpinMan]

They'd clearly heard of aeroplanes before, just never actually seen one.

[No601_Prangster]

Not a freaks but quite unique.

 

The origin of Wonder Woman view?

Edited November 17, 2014 by No601_Prangster

[HeavyCavalrySgt]

Caproni Ca.60

Not just a crap aircraft, but a damned fine block of flats.

 

 

Amazing that it actually lifted off before destroying itself.

 

The origin of Wonder Woman view?

 

 

 

 

It is interesting that this wasn't seen as a step backwards towards the Wright Flyer.  Seats really are a pretty cool invention, and much easier to engineer into an aircraft design than to undertake a multi-generational genetics experiment to evolve pilots that could fly something like this for a significant amount of time.

Edited November 17, 2014 by HeavyCavalrySgt

[Finkeren]

I think the WW1 Lloyd designs made for the K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen must be among the strangest aircraft to ever actually be built: 

 

The Lloyd FJ 40.05 even saw active service:

 

 

 

 

But the Luftkreuzer is just about the weirdest thing I've ever seen:

 

Edited November 17, 2014 by Finkeren

[sallee]

Waiting for a Pemberton-Billing.....

[Finkeren]

The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 looks like something that belongs in the next Star Wars series:

 

 

The Libellula looks like a bad joke made by a guy on the Internet with limited Photoshop skills:

 

 

The Aerodyne doesn't even look like an aircraft, more like a loose part of one:

 

 

And then ofc the legendary WW1 fighter, the DFW "Flea":

 

[SOLIDKREATE]

 

 

 

"This Spitfire (colour image is a model) suffers the double indignity of having not only Nazi markings, but the attachment of a Daimler-Benz DB605 Engine. The RAF identity of this aircraft was EN830—a Spitfire F.Vb (Merlin 45) and was the presentation aircraft called “CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP” (a grammar school on Kent). The Spitfire force-landed on the occupied Channel Island of Jersey after air combat over Ouistreham, France on 18 November 1942. The pilot, Pilot Officer Scheidhauer was captured and made a POW. Scheidhauer took part in the Great Escape, but was recaptured at Saarbrucken, and shot dead by the Gestapo on 29 March 1944, along with 50 others who took part. After the Spitfire was captured and received its DB605, it was taken to Sindelfingen Daimler-Benz factory, near Echterdingen, where a 3.0 m. diameter Bf 109G propeller was added, together with the carburettor scoop from a Bf 109G. After a couple of weeks, and with a new yellow-painted nose, the Spitfire returned to Echterdingen. Capt Willy Ellenrieder, of Daimle-Benz, was the first to try the aircraft. He was stunned that the aircraft had much better visibility and handling on the ground than the Bf 109. It took off before he realized it and had an impressive climb rate, around 70 ft. (21 m.) per second. Much of the Spitfire’s better handling could be attributed to its lower wing loading. Inset photo via Stewart Callan, Flickr"

 

 

Source: http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/394/WTF.aspx