Every now and then you come across airplanes that looks a bit... Unconventional. The reasoning behind the choosen design is always facinating, if you can come across it. Othervise you can speculate, and that is perhaps equally fun. There is all those "artists concept" were there isn't much engineering behind the design, but there are others that are genually designed and flown.
I'll present a few of my favourites.
Westland P-12:It was supposed to be a strafing airplane, to shoot at the German troops when they landed at the shores of England. The origin is the Lysander with a shortened the rear fuselage. At the end they put a large turret. To balance the airplane with the heavy turret way back the tail plane had to be very large, hence the odd looks. Apparently it flew very well, and had good manoeuvrability but since the threat of a German invasion declined in the autumn of 1939 the development were stopped.
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