The Plane That Used Its Wings For A Very Strange Thing

Meet France S Bizarre Cold War C 450 Coléoptère Vtol Jet The National This plane used its wings for a very strange reason. as the island hopping campaigns of the pacific theatre raged on, navy lt. john a. burns flew his vought kingfisher floatplane on the truk lagoon where the american and japanese troops fought against each other. that day, burns executed a mission that would eventually become legendary. The ad 1 was built by nasa in the late 1970s as a test airframe after nasa aeronautical engineer robert t. jones became interested in the concept of an "oblique" wing. once considered outlandish.

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