The World’s Strangest Airplanes (#4 will Blow your Mind!!)

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You might be surprised to find out that we have been navigating the airspace for commercial purposes for well over a century now. Yup, that’s correct – the first commercial flight was conducted by Tony Jannus on 1 January 1914 for the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, and we’ve come a long way in the past 100 years. Today, a plane lands somewhere in the world every 3 seconds, but the airplanes used through history are not always what you imagine them to be. Some of them, in fact, are so strange that you’d probably be scared to fly on. Or not? Check out the list we’ve compiled and decide for yourselves!
1
Airbus Beluga

The Airbus Beluga is a transporter aircraft used primarily to help them transport various components of an aircraft during the design process. It was intially named the Super Transporter, however, because of it’s whale like appearance, the Beluga name caught on. There’s only 5 of these built and they’ve been in operation ever since 1994 and they’re expected to be replaced by 2020.
2
EL/M-2075 Phalcon

This aircraft has a strange nose for a reason. The nose was designed by Israel Aerospace Industries and Elta Electronics Industries of Israel as a radar aircraft that would provide early airborne warning for enemy aircraft’s, ships, and vehicles. This system was designed primarily for the Boeing 707 and the complete assembly with the system and aircraft is referred to as the Phalcon.
3
ATL-98 Carvair

Named in full as the Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair, it waas a large cargo aircraft that was powered by four propeller engines. As the name suggests, this aircraft was primarily designed to carry cars (cars-via-air) and it had the capacity to carry up to 5 cars and 25 passengers.
4
Proteus

The Scaled Composite Proteus designed by Burt Rutan was flown for the first time in 1998. It is an astonishing tandem-wing High-Altitude Long Endurance aircraft which had the purpose to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays. This multi-mission vehicle can orbit a point at over 60,000 for more than 18 hours and carry various payloads on a ventral pylon
5
Hyper III

The Nasa Hyper III with flat bottom and sides, and a simple straight wing with no control surfaces was a lifting body remotely pilot vehicle built at their research center in 1969 to help in the M2 lifting body program. Its first flight lasted three minutes after it was launched from a helicopter at 10,000 feet. Following the test flight, this aircraft was never flown again and NASA cancelled the program.