STRANGEST Airplanes and Ships In The World

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From experimental design aircraft; to unique and weird boats; these are the 15 STRANGEST Airplanes and Ships in the World HEY YOU ! There are more awesome videos being made every week, like and subscribe to World Unearthed so you don't miss a beat ! 15. White Knight 2 | SCALED COMPOSITES The white knight 2 is a cargo aircraft, that is designed to carry the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft…. In essence, the WK2 is a mothership. Lets back up a little, so we can understand whats going on here. So the Virgin Galactic company owns the aptly called Spaceship company, which is in the business of space tourism. The WK2 will carry the spacecraft to a fedora release altitude, and all the people on board the spacecraft will get to enjoy the final frontier. Well… the sub-orbital final frontier. As of right now, they are still in the testing phase of this massive project. I know, it sounds crazy, but we are living in the future folks ! Get with the times. Before we move on, I would like to introduce you to the White Knight’s competition, Chad, the stratolaunch carrier. 14. RP FLIP | Gunderson Brothers Engineering 13. Airlander 10 | Hybrid Air Vehicles 12. Novgorod | Imperial Russian Navy 11. Vought V-173 | Vought I wasn’t even planning this segway, but here we are, from round ships, to round planes. V-173, nicknamed “the flying pancake”. It was one of the first, strange, “all wing” airplane designs and as bizarre as it looked, it did provide high maneuverability Unfortunately, it was just one more of those weird designs that people learned valuable information from but was never used in any official capacity. At least the model is still up on display. 10. Hughes Glomar Explorer | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co 9. NASA AD-1 | Ames Industrial Co The AD-1 is another experimental aircraft from the Cold War Era. This time NASA was interested in seeing how far aircraft wings could be pivoted, as it turns out this plane could pivot its wings up to 60 degrees. The plane was built and tested between 1979 and 1982 but the first designs for such aircraft came from Germany in 1944. The test was a success, the so called oblique wing aircraft flew, never crashed, and NASA scientists got some valuable information. You can still see the plane on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. 8. Floating Prison | Avondale Industries 7. V-22 Osprey | Boeing 6. HSV-2 | Incat 5. Proteus 281 | Scaled Composites Hey would you look at that, another Scaled Composites design on this list, these guys sure know how make weird looking planes ! The 281 Proteus is a High Altitude Long Endurance aircraft, it is capable of orbiting a point, 63,000ft (19,200m) for 18 hours. This plane has been a massive success, it has been used by multiple U.S. Agencies, so next time you are doing something shady in your backyard, just remember the NSA could have one of these bad boys hovering miles above. 4.Planet Solar | Knierim Yachtbau Well, the name kind of gives it away, but here we go, PlanetSolar is the largest solar powered boat in the world, and it is the first solar powered vehicle to circumnavigate the world ! The top of the boat is covered in 5700 sq.ft. (537sq.m) of solar panels rated at 93kW. There is about 8 tons of lithium-ion batteries inside the ship. In other words, if this ship was a vape, I’m pretty sure everyone in the world would know about it… The builders believed that after testing was finished, the boat would be purchased by a wealthy billionaire to be used as a luxury yacht. Elon Musk ignored my email on the subject so I’m guessing it wasn’t him. Right now, the PlanetSolar is being used as a floating marine research lab by the Geneva University. 3. HL 10 | NORTHROP So the guys over at NASA wanted to see if you can fly planes that have no wings, to everyone’s surprise, the HL-10 did just that. In this amazing picture, we see the wingless aircraft and its pilot after a flight, while a Boeing NB-52B Mothership flies above. A spectacular sight if you ask me ! My understanding of this whole project is this, the HL-10 was supposed to be a space re-entry craft that could use an engine to prolong the gliding phase, and then land safely at lower speeds. There were 37 test flights, the highest speed reached was 1227 m/ph (1976km, Mach 1.861) , the project was shut down before any space re entry tests could be done, the HL-10 can be seen on display at Edwards Air Force Base. 2.Johan’s Ark | Johan Huibers 1.Concorde | BAC | SUD AVIATION