Funny Fictional Aircraft (the old "Humorous aircraft never meant to fly..")

hesham said:
Hi,


can we consider this Baranowski flying-machine a humorous design.


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Looks though that it was a serious idea at the time: http://books.google.com/books?id=z4I9AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=steam+baranowski+petersburg&source=bl&ots=40X3I6ub2J&sig=xc8Da0fr6RDB5PBX1XYvgQagFvc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sp4YU_eYJ4PkoAT7g4HIBg&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=steam%20baranowski%20petersburg&f=false

Martin
 
hesham said:
can we consider this Baranowski flying-machine a humorous design.
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I don't think you quite grasped what is meant by humorous here: it's not "humorous for us 21st century people"... it's stuff that was MADE TO BE humorous for the readers back then! Created for fun! Designed to make people laugh!
 
A Stalin era answer to airmobility for the infantryman. Who knows why it was not more fully deployed? Possibly the soldier's wives complained too much about their men preferring to fly to battle rather than spend time with their devotchkas. Drawn by comrade Stan Mottski.
 

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Richard N said:
A Stalin era answer to airmobility for the infantryman. Who knows why it was not more fully deployed? Possibly the soldier's wives complained too much about their men preferring to fly to battle rather than spend time with their devotchkas. Drawn by comrade Stan Mottski.
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Yeah that's not suggestive, not at ALL ;D

What about things everyone else finds hilarious? Surprised a certain "manufacturer" hasn't appeared in here yet...
 
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Richard N said:
A Stalin era answer to airmobility for the infantryman. Who knows why it was not more fully deployed? Possibly the soldier's wives complained too much about their men preferring to fly to battle rather than spend time with their devotchkas. Drawn by comrade Stan Mottski.
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Yeah that's not suggestive, not at ALL ;D

What about things everyone else finds hilarious? Surprised a certain "manufacturer" hasn't appeared in here yet...
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Stavatti? Phalanx? Co. . .Co. . that Russian dude?
 
Hi,


I think that's a humorous aircraft,Luftfahrt 6/1980.
 

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hesham said:
I think that's a humorous aircraft,Luftfahrt 6/1980.
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Although the author of the article certainly doubts the design's merits, it is certainly not presented as a joke in it. And since the article was not an April fool's prank, one can safely say it was, if not a rightful "Early aircraft project", at least a "Theoretical and Speculative" one...
 
There's humorous and then there's looney.
The Nikolatos 'Bat Plane' is certainly the latter. :eek:
 

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O-M-I-G-O-D.

This is hilarious! ;D ;D ;D

I'm the one who committed this montage back in 2010 with no other purpose than pure fun!
It can be seen in its original context in my deviantART gallery here:
http://bispro.deviantart.com/art/Lockheed-Martin-QF-35D-UCAV-169019442

At the moment I do not know what I find the most exhilarating: that Israeli website mistaking my image as a legit Lockheed Martin document, or the thought that this image actually was seen and appreciated by people working on the genuine article!!!

Please Richard, tell your friends I'm honored and glad to have made them smile... B)

... And in case they'd want to see more crazy Lockheed Martin re-creations, there's quite a few more out there... My all-new website has a whole page of them!
http://aviadesign.online.fr/usa-lockmart.htm
 
Hi,


here is a strange X-wing fighter shape,of course only imagination.
 

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Stealth airliner
 

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Don't forget the Eagle 5 from Spaceballs. Still waiting for that sequal Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.
 

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From Kryl'ya Rodine 5/1992,


a humorous model.
 

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guessing this fits in with the original aims of the thread ? ... (posted with original caption)

Abbotsinch (apprentices? engineers?) cobbled it up as a spoof for the 1961 Open Day. It was announced as a new secret type on its first public display. It lined up, ran up to some speed along the runway then disappeared back to a hangar on the pretext that it had a technical problem. The Gannet tail is recognisable, and there are probably bits of Venom, Sea Vixen, etc in there too. It was never going to fly. No idea of its fate.

http://www.clourie.co.uk/aircraft/page58/files/page58-1334-full.html
 

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RNAS Abbotsinch (aka. HMS Sanderling, now Glasgow Airport).

here's the same "aircraft" in a slightly later (1962)configuration with a squared-off rudder and nose "intake"

billed as the "Vennet", a concoction of Sea Venom and Gannet components, put together purely as a spoof and exhibited at RN. open days, where it was capable of a fast taxy though obviously it didn't fly. :)
 

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TsrJoe said:
Abbotsinch (apprentices? engineers?) cobbled it up as a spoof for the 1961 Open Day. It was announced as a new secret type on its first public display. It lined up, ran up to some speed along the runway then disappeared back to a hangar on the pretext that it had a technical problem. The Gannet tail is recognisable, and there are probably bits of Venom, Sea Vixen, etc in there. It was never going to fly. No idea of its fate.

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Very funny.
 
hesham said:
From Kryl'ya Rodine 5/1992,


a humorous model.
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This idea of ​​an ornithopter, submitted by the readers of the magazine. No humor.
 
TsrJoe said:
RNAS Abbotsinch (aka. HMS Sanderling, now Glasgow Airport).

here's the same "aircraft" in a slightly later (1962)configuration with a squared-off rudder and nose "intake"

billed as the "Vennet", a concoction of Sea Venom and Gannet components, put together purely as a spoof and exhibited at RN. open days, where it was capable of a fast taxy though obviously it didn't fly. :)
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It's a pity - it almost looks as though it should! You can't tell me they never at least TRIED to find someone brave and/or drunk enough to pull back on the stick... :eek:
 
From l'Aeronautique 11/1935,


here is a transatlantic huge flying boat,I consider it a humorous aircraft.
 

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Anther one;


https://breshvic.wordpress.com/page/2/
 

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Anther freak aircraft.
 

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hesham said:
Anther freak aircraft.
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Yes, but NOT humorous, because not meant to be funny. We may find it amusing but it was not devised to be humorous (you seem to have a problem with the concept of this thread).

So, simply a hypothetical, speculative design for what seemed a possible future airliner.
 
Justo,
Image USN972, Piaggio=Pegna Pc.7 Schneider Trophy Racer, used hydrofoils instead of floats, fitted with air and water propellors, transition controlled manually... :eek:
It never flew.


Image USN973, de Havilland T.K.5, designed by the students at the de Havilland Technical School, as far as I know it never flew either...


cheers,
Robin.
 
robunos said:
Image USN972, Piaggio=Pegna Pc.7 Schneider Trophy Racer, used hydrofoils instead of floats, fitted with air and water propellors, transition controlled manually...
Image USN973, de Havilland T.K.4, designed by the students at the de Havilland Technical School, as far as I know it never flew either...
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Call me a spoilsport if you will, but placing these two beautiful designs in a topic about "humorous aircraft never meant to fly" is not just totally off-topic, it is also an offense to the great aviation engineers who developed these beauties!
 
OOOOPS!! I made a mistake....... :-[


The de Havilland aircraft is the T.K.5, not the T.K.4 ...
I've corrected this in the post above, and will delete this post in due course...


cheers,
Robin.
 
Well, the title of this thread probably makes it a bit difficult to decide, what belongs here
and what not. I'm pretty sure, that Justo knows the Piaggio-Pegna Pc.7, but on that photo,
it actually look, as if it was just ditched. And the dH T.K.5 reminds me of the question posed
to Roland Payen (about the Pa.100) : "Excuse me, Sir, but in which direction is this thing
intended to fly ??", so there's actually a humurous facet.
Looking through the posts, I think, the illustrations made by Bruce McCall
(http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21471.msg212122.html#msg212122 ),
Stan Mott ( http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21471.msg212166.html#msg212166 ),
or Ron Cobb (http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21471.msg212172.html#msg212172 )
fit exactly the original sense, other things like the cartoon from Le Fana
( http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21471.msg212413.html#msg212413 )
probably, too.
Principally I would like to change the title to something like "Aircraft in Comics and Cartoons", but
I'm afraid, that we will read full issues of "Buck Danny" and "Mike Tangy". Perhaps we add the word
"funny" ("Funny Aircraft in Comics and Cartoons" or "Aircraft in Funny Comics and Cartoons") ?
 
"Aircraft in funny comics and cartoons" would be too limiting. Such images can be found in advertisements I've been trying to locate in my scrap files a few ads with images meant to be humorous.
 
"Fictional aircraft designed to be funny"... Would that be less ambiguous?
 
RN. 'vixette' ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s00RhlMTySk

http://forum.keypublishing.com/.../index.php/t-130989.html ... 'In November 1961 RNAS Abbotsinch AHU was asked to investigate the conversion of older aircraft into a modern type for the Fleet Air Arm's display at the Royal Tournament, as the current service aircraft would prove too heavy for the floor of the Earl's Court Stadium. With the technical 'expertise' gained from their earlier conversion with the 'D H Vennet' for the 1961 Navy Day, it was decided that the simplest method was from the Sea Venom to the Sea Vixen. Four Sea Venom airframes were selected. The work was completed by March 1962 and they were transported to Portsmouth by lighter. Dubbed 'Mini-Vixens' or 'Vixettes', three of the replicas were known to have worn the spurious markings 'XJ601:241/H', 'XJ602:247/H' and 'XJ603:246/H'. To the best of my knowledge, the identities of the original Sea Venoms have not been established'
 

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