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Very Cool Pics of Rare Aircraft

Some pretty wild stuff in here - I wonder how many were mistaken for UFOs?

http://rareaircraf1.greyfalcon.us/UNITED%20STATES.htm

ok, that was freakin awesome!
thanks a ton for those:cool:

Very cool. I'm not sure I'd want to be the pilot of the XP-63 "Manned Aerial Target"

In searching to find out what a manned aerial target is (it is exactly what it says) I found this page which claims pretty categorically that the turboprop B-17 on the page is photoshopped.

The Pima Air and Space Museum (near Tucson) is a great place for stuff like this. One of my favorites there, and very odd looking as well, is the Super Guppy.

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Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts (Post 236378)

Very cool. I'm not sure I'd want to be the pilot of the XP-63 "Manned Aerial Target"

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Originally Posted by http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/08/28/a-coveted-billet-no-doubt/

The most unusual P-63 variations were the RP-63A and RP-63C “pinball” versions developed late in WWII. These manned target aircraft were fired at by aerial gunnery students using .30-cal. lead and plastic frangible machine gun bullets that disintegrated harmlessly against the target’s external skin of Duralumin armor plating. Special instruments sent impulses to red lights in the nose of the “pinball” aircraft, causing them to blink when bullets struck the plane.

sounds like FUN!!!

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Originally Posted by scaeagles (Post 236457)

The Pima Air and Space Museum (near Tucson) is a great place for stuff like this. One of my favorites there, and very odd looking as well, is the Super Guppy.

I got to see one on takeoff when I was a kid. freakish site to see that thing actually fly. like a blimp with wings only slower

At the right angle the one sponsered by Sears could look like a UFO.