Honest to God, this thing really flew...

[jeriendhal]

It's almost frightening to see what airplane designers can do when they get a bug up their arse to beat a world record.

Link: http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/aero/aircraft/stitssa2.htm

In anime terms, I think that thing is a Super Deformed

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[pewtergryphon.livejournal.com]

Isn't it cool? It looks even funkier in real life.

The EAA Museum (in Oshkosh WI) is full of cool planes. My favorite is the Curtis P6 Hawk, the last (and only) biplane dive-bomber ever built for the US military. It's what Goering stole from to design the Stukka.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That museum and the Air Force Museum in Ohio are on my list of places I really want to visit. After the new Air & Space Annex opens in VA of course...