Design for a flying machine, Codex Atlanticus f.844r is a drawing by
Leonardo da Vinci .
Design for a flying machine
Codex Atlanticus f.858r is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
Goya
Edward Frost of Cambridgeshire, England, constructed an ornithopter of willow, silk, and feathers in 1902.
Ornithopter designed by Sean Kinkade, 1998
White Knight spaceplane
Aero-Spacelines Super Guppy (US)
Antonov A-40 flying tank glider (USSR)
Airbus Beluga (France)
AVE Mizar (US)
Bachem Natter vertical launch interceptor (Germany)
Bell X-22 experimental VTOL (US)
Blohm & Voss BV 141 asymmetrical (Germany)
Boeing X-48 B blended wing (US)
Burgess-Dunne tailless biplane (UK & US)
Burnelli CB-16 lifting fuselage (US & Canada)
Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano nine-wing flying boat (Italy)
Caproni-Stipa ducted fan (Italy)
Caproni Campini N.1 thermojet (Italy)
Convair XFY-1 VTOL fighter (US)
Convair NB-36H Nuclear powered aircraft (US)
Douglas
X-3 Stiletto (US)
Gossamer Albatross II Man powered Aircraft (US)
Hawker P.1127 V/STOL jet (UK)
Hillson Bi-mono slip wing (UK)
Hiller X-18 tiltwing aircraft (US)
North American
F-82 Twin Mustang twin fuselage interceptor (US)
Leduc 020 ramjet research aircraft (France)
Lockheed SR-71 blended fuselage delta (US)
McDonnell
XF-85 Goblin experimental parasite fighter (US)
Mignet Pou de Ciel/Flying Flea tandem wing homebuilt (France)
NASA AD-1 pivoting oblique wing (US)
NASA Pathfinder experimental unmanned solar-electric aircraft (US)
Nord Noratlas pod and boom transport (France)
Northrop Grumman
B-2 Spirit stealth flying wing bomber (US)
Piaggio Pc.7 racing seaplane with ski landing gear (Italy)
PZL Mielec M-15 Belphegor jet biplane crop duster (Poland)
Ryan Fireball mixed propulsion (US)
Ryan X-13 Vertijet (US)
SAAB Viggen canard fighter (Sweden)
Saunders-Roe SR A/1 jet floatplane fighter (UK)
Savoia-Marchetti S.55 twin hull flying boat (Italy)
Scaled Composites Proteus tandem wing (US)
SNECMA Coléoptère ring wing (France)
Sud-Ouest Trident experimental ramjet (France)
Sukhoi S-37 forward swept wings (USSR)
Tom Tom parasite project with 2
F-84s attached by the wingwips to a
B-29s (US)
Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" flying saucer (US)
Yokosuka MXY-7 Okha rocket powered kamikaze aircraft (Japan)
Zveno-2 parasite aircraft project with
Tupolev TB-3 (airborne aircraft carrier) and three
I-5s (USSR)
J.S. Zerbe's Multiplane
Horatio Phillips' 1904 Multiplane
Horatio Phillips' 1907 Multiplane
Chance Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" (US Navy)
Coandă-1910
Zerbe Quintaplane
Rutan Boomerang , an asymmetric airplane, intended to have less thrust asymmetry if one engine fails than a normal airplane would
Rutan SkiGull – parasol-winged airplane that can land on dry land, snow, calm water, and waves; can fly 8 miles on electric power alone
Rutan Voyager , first aircraft to circumnavigate Earth without stopping or refueling
Boeing YC-14 , with high-mounted jet engines to blow air over the upper surface of the wing, increasing lift at low speeds
Airbus A³ Vahana , tiltwing VTOL personal aircraft
Iranian
Cornu helicopter.
Flettner 282 (1940s, U.S. Air Force)
Autogyro mail delivery
Hughes H-6 of Guardia di Finanza (Italy)
Kamov Ka-26 D-HOAW (CCCP)
Jess Dixon's flying car.
Sikorsky X-wing
Do -32K Kiebitz (unmanned, Germany)
Do-34 Kiebitz mit Gefechtsfeldradar (unmanned, Germany)
V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft (USA)
Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne compound helicopter (US)
Mil Mi-12 , NATO name „Homer“, the largest built helicopter ever (prototype) - also known as V-12, late 1960s, CCCP.
KASKR-1 "Red Engineer", a Soviet autogyro, designed by N.I.Kamov and N. K. Skrjinskiy. It was based on a Cierva C.8 autogyro with Soviet U-1 body and an 120 h.p. M-2 engine (1929).
Gyrodyne : The Fairey Rotodyne prototype, a combination of helicopter, autogyro and medium distance propeller airliner that never reached series production.
Sikorsky Cypher, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft which use two opposing rotors enclosed in a circular shroud for propulsion.
Schraubenflugzeug.
Piasecki.
German autogyro
FA330 , towed by U-boats
Sikorsky CH-54B Skycrane
Manlifter War Kite , constructed by Samuel Franklin Cody (U.K., 1908).
Fictional flying contraption using static electricity, an early science fiction image, before 1775.
Vélocipédomanie "Voyage à la lune" ("Journey to the moon"), between 1865 and 1870.
Airborne Lifeboat in front of Vickers Warwick carrier aircraft (UK)
Jet-powered vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) test rig, nicknamed "Flying Bedstead"
VTOL testbed
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle of the Apollo program, also nicknamed "Flying Bedstead"
Flying carpet
Multiple Kill Vehicle MKV-L, a thruster-propelled vehicle to kill ballistic missile warheads by impact, hovering in a cage during testing
OTRAG rocket , one possible configuration. The concept was to assemble rockets of various sizes from identical, low-cost units.
Aéromotocyclette (aluminium body with
Propeller ), made by
Alessandro Anzani (France, 1906),
Specs: 6 hp internal combustion engine 6 v, 1.50m propeller, 70 kg, 79 km/h .
A 1920s propeller driven vehicle
propeller car
Russian two wheel car.
Doppelgelenkbus by Van Hool (length: 24.80 m).
Electric vehicle "Eliica".
Automotrices de la pente d'eau de Montech.
Mercedes-Benz Actros truck with six axles
Honda Motocompo, Japan.
Vehicle at DARPA Grand Challenge contest.
Small police car (New Orleans Police).
Scammel Scarab
Adler Diplomat 3 GS (Germany, 1941) with gas generator.
Rumpler-Tropfenwagen (Germany, 1927).
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport open air bus (Mumbai, India, 1928-1930).
Cutlass bus (Budapest sightseeing).
Fendt F 345 GT, Germany.
Segways.
Aptera solar powered electric car
ParkingHopper op langparkeerplaats P3 (
Schiphol ).
One wheel motorcycle (invented by Italian M. Goventosa from
Udine ).
Camel bus in
La Habana , Cuba.
Wheelbarrow with motor.
Motorcycle with coachwork (Acabion).
1911 Reeves Octoauto
Casalini Sulky, Italian three-wheeler for disabled folks.
Canadian ice-tour bus
bendy bus
Nuclear-powered bendy bus with 75 tons on 32 enormous wheels providing a bowling alley and a pool (prop for the 1976 film
The Big Bus )
Emergency doc vehicle used by both Austrian and German Red Cross
Pedalo Air Combi
South-pointing chariot
Airwheel E3
Liliputkutsche, 1903.
Walkmobile
Bicycle with two riders beneath.
Wheelbarrow with sails (nearby
西安 - Xi'an, China, early 20th century).
Sail wagon.
Sideways sitting bicycle.
Quadracycle with wheels of different sizes in diamond formation
Steampowered tractors.
Alaska Highway mailtruck.
Snowmobile, a tracked vehicle (H555 of the Helsinki Fire Department), Finland.
Coanda snow sleigh (Russia)
Screw-propelled vehicle.
Lenin's Rolls Royce.
Bombardier Snowmobile, Canada.
Snowcat for people transportation at Silcox Hut, Oregon.
Caterpillar tractor used by the first Argentine expedition in 1965 (restored).
Storage tank for the use in the Tundra of Alaska, United States.
Segelomnibus (Germany).
sand yachts : InVentus Ventomobile (front) and ECN Impulse (background)
Tracked land rover.
French GIGN assault vehicle.
Spanish GEO assault vehicle.
Pressurized rover for Mars (artist concept)
Theo Jansen's Walking Strandbeesten (Beach beasts)
Barely one foot from his bare feet are fast rotating blades to crumble the soil. Germany was broke after the war and shoes or boots existed only in fairy tales.
Never built, may it also apply? On paper it turned prairie into farmland.
Self propelled bridge, that says it all. See
Type 81 self propelled bridge
Russian S.A.M.
Sphereing, also known as globe-riding and Zorbing
NASA
Propeller-driven sled 1930/31
Propeller-driven sled from Russia (bus)
Ballista quadrirotis.
Russian Vezdekhod prototype tank.
Flying Elephant - British WWI super-heavy tank project.
Improvised polish armoured car (1920)
British Vickers Independant Tank.
French pre-WII FCM-F1 multi-turreted tank project.
German Panzer Neubaufahrzeug in Norway (1940).
Universal Carrier Praying Mantis.
Soviet T35 multi-turreted tank.
British Crusader tank disguised as a dummy lorry.
John Deere machine gun tractor (WW II, U.S. Army).
Welbike, British Special Operations Executive (WW II).
WWII Free French improvised armoured car.
Danish resistance improvised armoured car.
US Army M520 Goer articulated truck.
US Army M561 Gama Goat.
A
Humvee , equipped with four separate tracks for snow mobility (U.S. Army).
GE Quadruped Transporter (Cold War era, U.S. Army).
command vehicle
Brunton's Mechanical Traveller I ("Steam Horse locomotive") with legs
Baltimore & Ohio Camelback locomotive.
Baltimore & Ohio Camelback locomotive.
ČHŽ draisine builded on Škoda 1202 chassis.
Velocipede (draisine).
Another railbike.
rail bike
Baustellen-Schienenfahrzeug.
French railway car
Voiture Ouest à impériale , 1891.
HFJ-bussen avgår från Läggesta, kl. 14:13 (Sweden).
Beyer Garrett 6594 (India).
Freight trolleybus in Saint Petersburg.
Schienenzeppelin or rail zeppelin (experimental railcar).
Tram snow plow (Vienna, Austria).
1931 British double-decker tram, used in Leeds.
McKeen gasoline-engined switching locomotive, 1921.
Turmwagen.
SBB "Tintenfisch" Ta 974, Akkumulatortraktor mit Magnetpuffern für den Werkstätteverschub.
Motordraisine Klv-12 (12-4904) Deutsche Bahn.
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad snowplow (defunct), Maine
en .
White Pass and Yukon Route steam powered Snow blower (USA).
Speeder aka railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car or jigger (USA).
Draisine, Canada, between 1920 and 1950.
Bicycle Railway (1890s, United Kingdom)
Opel Olympia from 1953 (Harsfeld, Germany)
Replica of Spooner's boat,
Ffestiniog Railway
"The Siamese Twin" Locomotive on the Lartigue Monorailway, Ballybunion
ditto
McKeen Locomotive of the Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway "La Jolla Line", USA, c. 1910.
Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, a seagoing railway that existed in Brighton, UK, brtween 1896 and 1901
An ULTra PRT vehicle on a test track at Heathrow Airport, London
Rail plough being used to dismantle rail line in March 1944
Ukraine
ACW siegegun.
ACW siegegun (rear view).
Tank train of the Red Guards in the Finnish civil war, 1918.
US Army railjeep.
Wehrmacht, Kräder fahren auf Schienen.
Armored trolley Tatra T-18
Monorail , Brennan & Scherl (1907)
A
SEPTA Subway–Surface trolley car travels along Market Street tunnel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2007).
Unfallhilfsfahrzeug der Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft für Straßenbahnen.
Road-rail vehicle (
Unimog on rails).
Road-rail vehicle (Unimog).
Railway Land-Rover.
Ox-powered paddle boat from 4th-century Rome
Early watercraft construction by
Leonardo da Vinci .
Airboat: propelled by a fan, there's nothing to tangle with vegetation that may be in the water. This one is from the 1940s; modern airboats are similar.
1920 "Scooter" airboat by aircraft engineer Glenn Curtiss
1924 French airboat "Le Ricocheur" made by Farman Aircraft
Rotor ship (Alcyone , France)
SS
Great Eastern , combining paddle wheels, sails and a screw.
Ferry on submerged rails,
Merwedekanaal ,
the Netherlands
Chain boat towing barges on the Seine. It pulls itself upstream using a chain laid along the riverbed.
Zeuner auxiliary propulsion system for chain boats. The dark bulge in the middle contains a water pump. This was used instead of the chain when going downstream.
Prisoner transport ship (
Venice , Italy).
Jack-up crane ship, used to install offshore wind turbines
Jack-up barges, used to remove shipwrecks. In front appears to be a hydroplaning watercraft.
Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX) of the Missile Defense Agency
Semi-submersible heavy-lift ship (MV Blue Marlin, Marlin class) carrying SBX
Drillship (Joides Resolution , used for the Ocean Drilling Program, U.S.A.)
Concrete Ships
Project Habakkuk: proposed aircraft carrier made of pykrete (ice reinforced with wood fiber), intended to be difficult to sink
transporter
Amphibious car Amphi-Ranger 2800SR .
Amphibious Schwimmwagen (Wehrmacht).
LARC-XV, BARC (U.S. Army).
SR.N4 Mountbatten Class Hovercraft.
A hovercraft (LCAC = landing craft, air cushioned), used by the U.S. Navy.
Amphicar in Stuttgart, Germany.
Hovercraft Vector 2.
R.L.Bartini VVA-14 (Ekranoplan, Soviet Union).
WIK Type A (Ekranoplan).
Landing Vehicle Tracked a.k.a. amphtrack, amtrak, amtrac etc., a portmanteau of amphibious tractor (LVT).
Rice planting machine made by
Yanmar .
Beach carriage. See also
Mudflat carriages .
No, it's not a sinking boat. It rides on tracks. See also
Sea-going tractors .
Beach carriage. See also
Sea-going tractors .
Cultivating the
paddy fields . These things are dangerous… they have a reverse gear, you know.
Bathing machine (this one used by Queen Victoria)
Bathing machine in use
TOAD
Drawing of a proposed Flying submarine, Soviet Union during World War II
Sea-going tractor, UK.
Bus as ski lift: The
SkyWay at
Timberline Lodge ski area ,
Oregon , USA, 1940s.
Ultralight trike fixed to an inflatable dingy.
Glider floatplane.
Snowplane.
Alfred Ely Beach's experimental pneumatic elevated subway (1867).
Spratt.
Buddhist-Styled hearse (Lincoln Town Car, seen in Japan).
future truck design
Charvolant (early kitesailer as an automobile).
Ostrich drawn cart.
Zebras als Zugtiere.
Truthahn als Zugtier.
Vintage pedal car.
Cycle Pub of Bend, Oregon