Inventors patent odd designs for safer airplanes

From Modern Mechanics magazine, May 1935

https://archive.org/details/modern-mechanix.1935.05/page/n81/mode/2up

#antiques #airplanes #1930s

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shems@piefed.social · 0 pts · 256d (1 reply)

bottom left is basically a helicopter, or not?

perishthethought@piefed.social · 5 pts · 255d

I thought maybe more like a modern VTOL aircraft, like the Osprey?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey