The Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon
In the 1950s the U.S. military had loads of out-of-the-box ideas, and thanks to its huge budget, some of those ideas became reality. This plane was created with the intention of taking off vertically, but this also meant that it had to land vertically, which ended up tearing the engine apart and ruining the plane.
The Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon
The Grumman X-29
The U.S. Airforce obtained the Grumman X-29 between the 1980s and 90s. Its forward-facing wings were designed to give it better aerodynamics and a sleeker look, but actually, it just made it astronomically impossible to fly properly. Despite the fact that it was designed by the Air Force, NASA, Grumman, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, it still had many major flaws. A NASA employee stated, “It was unflyable — literally — without a digital flight computer onboard, which made corrections to the flight path 40 times a second.”
The Grumman X-29
