Tex Avery's plane?
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:35 pm
Most certainly already known here, but really amazing for a non plane-enthusthiast like me: the cartoonish 1932 Stipa-Caproni, which really flew in tests, but was never produced.
We're living boring times.
Computers led to design optimum things with similar shapes.
Differences between Boeing and Airbus are weak when a Constel, a Douglas DC-6/7, a Tupolev 114 and british airliners were so different !
Human designers have tested every kind of configuration (and you just show one of them).
IMPDB sometimes finds some strange concepts.
For example, the "Channel Wing" of the Custer CCW-5 (seen in the Flying Businessman).
Look the titles dedicated to the history and spectre of aviation to find some others (100%: Planes ; The Conquest of the Air ; ...)