Playlist - Forgotten Aircraft

Rockwell XFV-12; The VTOL Fighter That Couldn’t

Rockwell XFV-12; The VTOL Fighter That Couldn’t

In the 1970s the US was looking at fielding large numbers of cheaper carriers and they wanted a VTOL fighter to go with it. The problem was the design chosen for development, the XFV-12, couldn’t get off the ground.

The MiG 1.44/1.42; Mikoyan’s DIY “What-If?”

The MiG 1.44/1.42; Mikoyan’s DIY “What-If?”

When the American’s were coming up with the F-22 Raptor, the Soviet’s were busy devising their own fifth generation fighter. And though it ultimately came to just a single prototype, the MiG 1.44/42 remains one of history’s great “what-ifs?”

The RTAF-5; Thailand’s Baby Bronco

The RTAF-5; Thailand’s Baby Bronco

What do you get when you leave an OV-10 and an O-2 together on a sultry, tropical night? Something that looks like the RTAF-5, one suspects.

The Martin B-57G; Laid the Groundwork

The Martin B-57G; Laid the Groundwork

It might have looked like a Warthog with Syphilis and ruined the good looks of the Canberra, but the B-57G showed the way of the future.

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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!

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