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Check out this article on the Lee-Wendt "Amphibion" Blended Wing-Fuselage Flying Boat studies of the late 1930s:



The accompanying gallery features 7 high resolution images of these handsome but ultimately unsuccessful American transport designs.

-Jared

What was that experimental WW2 Navy assault glider that resembled this?

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

One of these I'd reckon:

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

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

Thanks! I've never seen the ALLIED out of the water.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

i've never seen nor heard of either glider!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Looks like they took the tail from an early PBY

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"I love the smell of 100LL in the morning."

...and attached it to an enlarged Airacuda!

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

Shades of Bill Barnes

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.