Exotic Aircraft Identification Thread

Hidden | 11/30/2010 | Self

[ccmay]

Just for fun, how about we stump each other with exotic or unusual airplane photos. Upload to Tinypic so no one can cheat by looking at the image source.

I'll go first. What is this aircraft?

[Army Air Corps]

We actually had an An-124 visit the town in which I live. I was many years ago and it came here to transport a cotton gin...building and all (disassembled, of course).

[Army Air Corps]

The “Missile with a Man In It.” Those are some seriously sleek and nifty birds. By looks alone, they lived up tp their name - Starfighter.

[MediaMole]

My dad got to tour the ANT-225. The crew lived on it, much like a ship’s crew. The aircraft sat at our hometown airport, with the crew on board, for a couple weeks while they waited for a new cargo.

It’s interesting how many times this aircraft, built during the Soviet era, has been used to support US military operations.

[Army Air Corps]

In my surreal daydreams, I imagine the Russian dude from the Direct TV advert living in one. “Opulence, I has it.”

[Doomonyou]

Love this thing.

[Army Air Corps]

The GeeBee. An engine with wings. :-)

[Las Vegas Dave]

More swamp gas, nothing to see here move along, move along...< /humor >

[Las Vegas Dave]

The line “4 fried chickens and a coke” is from the movie “The Blues Brothers”. It was Jake’s food order to Aretha Franklin.

This occured during the scene when Jake and Elwood go to the restuarant to ask Mad Dog to rejoin the band, Aretha Franklin then sings the song “Think” when she finds out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE41YPdPuis&feature=related

(Yes, I have the DVD!)

[Quix]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Quix]

I guess that means it’s not an overgrown robotic bumblebee.

[Quix]

—Bumper
—Scout craft

I forget other labels.

[Quix]

Uhhhhhh

flying Freudian . . . uhhh . . . symbols.

[Quix]

Sopwith Camel—Shulz Varient?

[bvw]

[Quix]

Borders on?

How about well over the line and half-way down the cliff of obsession?

[Cvengr]

Brewster Buffalo Jr? ;^)

[bvw]

I don't think there's room for a bb gun on that thing. Here's something else entirely:

[bvw]

An earlier concept along the same lines:

[bvw]

I still think that photo is a photoshop. But here:

[mad_as_he$$]

BssDee.