Russian Plane

SkepticJ

Years ago on the now defunct show Beyond 2000 there was a prototype aircraft being built in Russia that had no wings as such. Its shell had rectangle holes in it that I guess let air get in and flow over tiny internal wings or something. Anyone know what I'm talking about? It was big but not as big as a commercial airliner and was about half as wide as it was long. It was never finished as far as I know. They lost funding I think.

cronxeh

http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/wright.asp
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/9054/tarielka.jpg
http://home.dmv.com/~tbastian/russ.htm

ohwilleke

The concept is not so horribly different from the B-2 bomber.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-2.htm

SkepticJ

The middle and bottom ones are right. Thanks. Cool looking bird isn't it?

PerennialII

Would call that an out of the box design ... but the expression doesn't quite apply ... .