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best 5 (big) planes to make


Oliver Hyett

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Yug - Sounds like the 'Spruce Goose' flying boat. Flown once by Hughes but never put into production. There was a Dornier Do-X flying boat with 10 engines with push and pull props.

And how about the Britsol Brabazon - an absolute monster which never made it past the prototype. I used to work in the shadow of the hangars that were built especially for it - visible from the A38 as you go through Filton. Our office had a window looking out onto the runway (which was just the other side of the railway from Bristol Parkway to the Docks. The embankment obscured the lower part of the planes but the F-111s got airborne right in front of us. The Guppys were quite a sight - you saw the body and then a fin just behind it, a whale being chased by a shark. Guppy Spotters News was a joke in our group (there were 4 by the way). I think they were developed from the B-29/Stratocruiser for NASA.

How about some of the Soviet bombers - Bear, Blackjack

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Wow!. Now that is a monster. Something you would expect in a Jules Verne novel or Miyazaki film (Castle in the Sky or Howl's Moving Castle). I don't think I have ever come across this one in all my years reading about planes (Purnell were a key source for pictures). This really looks like an attempt to make a flying battleship.

 

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