Continuing the Father Tedposting
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Crews of the Myasischev M-50 bomber would be enter the cockpit by having their seats raised into the plane with the pilot strapped in.
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Tupolev Tu-80 and Tu-85: the soviet "fun" with the B29 continues
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The Tupolev Tu-70 was an airliner prototype based on the B-29
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The Yakovlev Yak-28-64 was a one-off prototype version of the Yak-28 with the engines moved from wings into the fuselage.
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Sukhoi Su-17 (from 1949) was supposed to have the entire front section separate as the ejection mechanism.
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The XC-123 was a jet transport daughter of the XG-20 Glider and a sister to the C-123 Provider
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This Boeing 720 is controlled remotely as part of NASA's Controlled Impact Demonstration
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Vickers VC-10 carrying a fifth engine in a designated pod under the wing
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The Boeing XF8B was Boeing's attempt at a versatile WW2 fighter for the Navy
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Sukhoi Su-9 of 1946, one of the earliest soviet fighter jets, likely inspired by the capturer Me-262s
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They tried rockets on the Comet too! The G-5-1 prototype took to the sky using De Havilland Sprite booster. Note the prototype's landing gear as well.
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Convair CV-340 operating for Caribair taking off using JATO rockets at St. Thomas airport. (I guess i'm the JATO airliners guy now)
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Douglas DC-4 taking off using JATO rockets. The plane is a freighter used by American Airlines.
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Douglas DC-9 modified with JATO bottles used by Overseas National Airways.
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Lockheed L-300 was the sole civilian Starlifter which became a flying observatory for NASA
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Avia CS-92, a Czechoslovak twin-seater jet trainer (and her single seat fighter sister - the S-92) was a post-war Czech version of the ME-262
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Lockheed L-1249 Super Constellation was a turboprop Connie (R7V-s in the Navy, YC-121F in the Air Force
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TU-116, the other, less subtle passenger conversion of the TU-95 bomber with the passenger compartment replacing the bomb bay.
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The ROMBAC 1-11, the 1-11 built behind the Iron Curtain in Communist Romania
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Lockheed has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever (again)
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