{"id":106381,"date":"2024-08-12T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/most-unconventional-military-aircraft-designs\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T23:00:12","slug":"top-5-most-unconventional-us-military-aircraft-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=106381","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Most Unconventional US Military Aircraft Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Arguably, the era of the strangest aircraft designs took place at the beginning of aviationthis was when people were experimenting to find out what aircraft shapes worked. Arguably, none of these designs were unconventional, as convention had not yet been established. Another period of strange aircraft design happened during and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/convair-xfy-pogo-us-navy-funny-looking-vtol-experimental-aircraft-program-failed\/\" >after<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/convair-xfy-pogo-us-navy-funny-looking-vtol-experimental-aircraft-program-failed\/\"> WWII with designs like the Convair XFY-1 Pogo<\/a>. Some unconventional designs never got past the experimental stage, while others, like <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/northrop-grumman-b-2-spirit-complete-guide\/\">the B-2 Spirit &#8216;flying wing&#8217;, have become the standard for stealth design<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many unconventional aircraft designs have been abandoned, the flying wing of the B-2 is now the stealth bomber convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7038,1880,567,1328,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-2-spirit-bomber","category-experimental-planes","category-guides","category-united-states-air-force","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106387,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106381\/revisions\/106387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}