The design flaw in the comet was the Square windows that caused stress fractures at the corners. This was fixed in later models by replacing them with round windows...

All we need is an Arched window and we would have an episode of Playaway.

Sorry UK joke :D

Edit: wrong tv program... sigh Its old age
Cheers

Garion

Antonov A-40?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...AntonovA40.jpg
:D

Never made it into operational service...

Those russians and their crazy ideas...:rotfl2:

F7U Cutlass maybe?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...F7UCutlass.jpg

Or even a TU-22
http://www.enemyforces.net/aircraft/tu22rd.jpg

Already mentioned that one..

I nomnate the LWS-6_Żubr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWS-6_%C5%BBubr

If you raised the gear in flight they would collapse on landing so you had to fly with them extended at all times... and it carried a bomb load of a whopping 660 kgs... Polish aviation at its finest...

Yeah. Missed that requirement when reading the thread.

I'm convinced this could have been a major success. Just imagine a battalion of these flying tanks at the Eastern Front.

The Germans would have been too busy laughing to notice the Red Army rolling over them.

Okay admittedly I know next to nothing about military aircraft, in comparison with you guys... but that looks an awful lot like an airborne tank.

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com...0349832898.jpg

Convair XFY-1
 

http://imgur.com/xK5Ia.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_XFY

That's exactly what it is. It's a tank fitted with wings, to be used as a glider, towed aloft by another aircraft.

The idea was to get tanks to the battlefield to support airborne operations. Rather than load the tank into a glider, the tank IS the glider.

It didn't work as well as was hoped, and the idea was scrapped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_A-40

http://idiotflashback.files.wordpres...09/12/wkrp.jpg

"As God is my witness... I thought armor could fly."

It appears the guys at Antonov did too.

Yaknow, I wounder what the first luftwaffe pilot to see one of those would have thought. "Holy ****, a flying tank!!!"

then he lands, and gots to explain that one.

Or the humble tank crew.
"Tank spotted, 11 oclock, high"
"Huh, Hans did you take your pillz today"
"No, really, a flying tank"
"looks like you wernt so crazy after all..."

Maby not the worst plane in history. but I sure wouldnt fly it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachem_Ba_349

MXY 7 maby? IIRC they wernt too sucessful.

The Okha? They worked quite well actually.

They sank or destroyed beyond repair 2 Destroyers and hit 6 other ships incl 1 BB in the space of about 3 months. Not bad for something in service for only around 6 months.