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Santa’s sleigh concepts from Rolls Royce/Nissan/Land Rover
(via car magazine)

Santa’s sleigh concepts from Aston Martin/Jaguar/Ford
(via car magazine)

sunday fantasy #187: Darren Quach/Resistance: Fall of Man

“Rockwell study of oblique wing aircraft for fleet air defense”

the Hughes HK-1 twin-hull flying boat concept - the forerunner of the H-4 Hercules

This image of a hypothetical Concorde nuclear bomber, carrying Blue Steel missiles, appeared in the 1968 Royal Air Force yearbook

The SSBJ (SuperSonic Business Jet) “Fanstream” concept. What appears to be a heavily modified Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber - with a passenger cabin (detachable, in case of emergency), and a rocket engine for suborbital flight..

This does not appear to be a Sukhoi project, and there appears to be no updates on the status of this highly ambitious venture since early February. It would be interesting if anyone has any information about the people/company behind this..?

(originally found via the highly recommended planeshots tumblr)

Miles M.22 project. Art by “Flitzer”
(via secretprojects.co.uk)

“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.”

Convair “Betta”, 1952
(via secretprojects.co.uk)

sunday fantasy #62: Captain Rickenbacker’s Airplane of the Future (1929)

sunday fantasy #59: the Flying Whirligig (1935)