x planes

“The Convair Kingfish was the ultimate result of a series of proposals designed at Convair as a replacement for the Lockheed U-2 - Project OXCART. The Kingfish design competed with the Lockheed A-12, and lost out to that design in 1959.”

cover art from “Stealth Warplanes”, by Bill Gunston (1988)
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sunday fantasy #43: concept art from Command and Conquer Generals

Boeing concept study for a “Very Large Span Loader Subsonic Transport plane”, 1991
(warning: link opens a pdf)

hilaryrakestraw:

[T]he design patent on Northrop Grumman’s Next Generation Bomber concept

German Adlershof ‘10000ps’ project, 1918. Rumoured to have originated from Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin himself. Ten propellers driven by 20 500hp engines, a wingspan of 140 metres, and a length of 72 metres…
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Myasishchev “Romb” transport concept
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Myasishchev M-50, short take-off variant design
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