What is this plane?

[Simba]

The Swedes' first combat jet fighter (the 'Tunnan', which I believe means 'Barrel') was a porker - but that Eytie contraption beats it all ways up.

Wasn't it Glen Curtiss who said 'give me enough power and I'll make a barn door fly'?

 

[froger]

looks like a carnival ride 

[save]

Sweden had a jet-powered version of J21/A21 long before J29 Tunnan flew. It was named J21R

J29 Tunnan had a record-breaking speed of 977km/h (beating the F86 with 27km/h)

[Lab Rat 3947]

it would definitely be a newbie gunnery target, how could you miss?

[Ack-Ack]

it would definitely be a newbie gunnery target, how could you miss?

You do realize that it wasn't intended to be a manufactured plane and was only a test bed to test a theory, right?


ack-ack

[BulletVI]

You do realize that it wasn't intended to be a manufactured plane and was only a test bed to test a theory, right?


ack-ack

Acctually Ack - Ack some of the people in here would miss that EH  

[Ack-Ack]

Acctually Ack - Ack some of the people in here would miss that EH  

90% would probably shoot through the big hole in the center 


ack-ack

[Lab Rat 3947]

that would probably be my luck

[Lab Rat 3947]

apologies to Ack-Ack. Iwas laughing so hard I missed the post about it being a testbed. my bad. 

[BulletVI]

90% would probably shoot through the big hole in the center  


ack-ack

Eye 2 true bud to true  

An if you where flying the Brew you may land up flying through the middle lol lol 

[DERK13]

lol that planes a joke haha but id be fun to fly i guess, i bet u cud hover with that plane

[Ack-Ack]

lol that planes a joke haha but id be fun to fly i guess, i bet u cud hover with that plane

Why was the plane a joke? 


ack-ack

[BulletVI]

Im sure we will all agree on one thing. That is if we never had these weird and funny looking planes we would never be where we are today with aircraft.

Remember since 1930's weird and funny planes have been used to test top secret new design's. Now for instance the chief designer at Mistokian ( MIG ) In Russia in 1944 designed a practically useless plane that only 4 where bought and used to ferry high ranking Officers About Russia. When in actual fact he designed it as a test plane for the wing design of the Mig 15 jet fighter. And it was a weird looking plane. I will try to find a photo of it and add it to this post

[800nate]

Imagine how it looked in flight.

(Image removed from quote.)

The Caproni Stipa image in the first post isn't an original, it's a 3/5 scale flying replica but still would be been cool to see fly.


ack-ack

hhahhahahahahahahahah holy crap you are kidding me right lol

[fbWldcat]

I don't know whether I should say Bump or IN.

Why must nate bring this up? It had it's go around the BBS, let it die... I'm a hypocrite...