Jan 132012
Another of one Alexander Lippisch’s aerodyne concepts. Wingless VTOL vehicles, they obviously never caught on. This one is for a US Navy craft of some type, apparently a resupply vehicle for submarines. It has the appearance of being designed to submerge itself… but that’s just nutty. I have no idea whatsoever what the red bulges are top and bottom. Maybe radar antennae domes? If so, it seems odd that there’d be handrails running up the front of ’em. But for a vehicle like this, “radar picket” would seem a possible role.
