It’s not well remembered, but same day the US Navy ordered the famous F6F Hellcat they also ordered another fighter; the Curtiss XF14C.
Playlist - Forgotten Aircraft
North American ETF-51D; The “Sea Horse”
Though the US Navy swore off liquid cooled engines in 1921 they always kept an eye on developments. And the P-51 certainly caught their eye.
A Formidable Big Fokker; The T.IX
When Fokker lost a major contract to build bombers for the Dutch East Indies, they responded by coming up with a thoroughly up-to-date design
The Fokker T.V; Flying “Cruiser”!
It might appear to be a run-of-the-mill bomber of its day, but the Fokker T.V was originally planned for shooting down other aircraft!
Martin Baltimore; the RAF’s Skinny American
Considering the amount of combat it saw from 1942 until 1945, it is quite remarkable how poorly remembered the Martin Baltimore is!
Martin Maryland / 167-A3; Overlooked Stalwart
An aircraft that fought both for and against the Allies, played critical roles in some of the major events of WW2…and is barely remembered!
The Ki-20; Mitsubishi’s Monstrous White Elephant
In the late 1920s an increasingly militant Japan decided they might need a heavy bomber…and they didn’t mess around with it!
Forgotten Lancaster; The B.VI
Everyone knows everything there is to know about the Avro Lancaster, right? Nothing more to be said, surely?
Budd RB-1 Conestoga – An Innovative Failure
It might not have been much a success, nor be well remembered but the Budd RB-1 Conestoga had a number of advanced features.
XFC-130H Hercules – Barely Credible!
When the Iranian hostage crisis needed a solution Lockheed and the US Special Operations community came up with a radical solution.
About This Playlist
The Martin Baker MB.5? Westland Wendover? Some of the aircraft here have just faded into history. Some were good planes that just came at the wrong time and so are now barely remembered. And some are just so utterly weird it boggles the mind as to what the designers were thinking!
