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[PHOTOS] The World's Most Weird Looking Aircrafts You'll Ever See...

Aerospace engineers have come up with some revolutionary forward-thinking amazing straight-up insane designs. Sometimes these dreams never make it off the drawing board, but sometimes—some wonderful times—they become real. And when these alien bodies lift off into the firmament, it's like watching a spaceship transporting the human race directly into the future.

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Part plane, part rocket!

The Ryan X-13 Vertijet, built by Ryan Aeronautical in 1955 for the US Air Force, would take off vertically, fly horizontally and land vertically.

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The White Knight '2'!

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The caspian sea monster!

The Caproni Ca.60!

Nine wings, eight engines, room for one hundred passengers. It even flew, briefly, in 1921.

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The Dornier Do X!

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The Wingless!

M2-F1 lifting body in towed flight, it was the first of five designs of lifting body, in which aerodynamic lift is derived from the shape of the fuselage rather than from wings.,

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The world's largest copter!

The Russian-built Mil V-12 is the world s largest helicopter, 28 metres in length and 4.4 metres in width and height and pair of rotors were mounted on transverse wings

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Is it an UFO or a plane?

Is it a spaceship or a plane?

The X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft model - prototype, a cross between a conventional plane and a flying wing design, was created based on a need for a multi-role, long-range and high-capacity military transport aircraft.

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Whale of the skies!

The Super Guppy Turbine (NASA's B377SGT), super-sized cargo plane flown since 1980 and acquired by NASA in 1997, is taking off from Edwards Air Force Base en route to to its home base, near the Johnson Space Center in California.

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To the moon!

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The aircraft that could fly with or without rotor blades which would act as an additional pair of wings

The X-Wing was an experimental hybrid helicopter/fixed wing aircraft built in 1986 by helicopter maker Sikorsky for NASA.

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