I didn't fly in.....

[henry crun]

....the Bristol Brabazon, but I did get inside just before she was broken up and scrapped.

[DX Wombat]

the one and only.

[henry crun]

[bbvideo=560,315]https://youtu.be/AV1eUeo27tc[/bbvideo]

....the Saunders Roe Princess, but I did see one over Filton, a most improbable sight, that enormous fuselage actually flying over land.

[henry crun]

https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive ... 00202.html

[om15]

The Beardmore Inflexible was an interesting aircraft, built by shipbuilders it was not a huge success

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[ian16th]

Leduc 0.22.jpg

But I saw it fly.

[stuart]

What on earth is that Ian ?

[ian16th]

What on earth is that Ian ?

Leduc 0.22 A French ramjet.

It was being test flown at Base Aérienne 125 Istres, in 1957 when I was posted to the RAF Liaison Party there.

Details here: http://aerostories.free.fr/constructeur ... page8.html

The Languedoc that was used for air launching the earlier Leduc's was also at Istres, parked in the open, but I never saw it move.

[stuart]

Thanks Ian, it seems to have been very advanced for it's time.

[Stoneboat]

I have no idea what this is, the Caspian Sea Monster, perhaps? The caption says "If it's ugly, it's British. If it's weird, it's French. If it's ugly and weird, it's Russian."

[henry crun]

Yes, absolutely, the Lun class Ekranoplan weighing in at 350 tons:



http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprint ... noplan.gif