The Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon
The U.S. Military had a lot of crazy ideas during the ’50s, and thanks to their huge budget, a lot of those ideas became reality. The Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon was created with the intention of taking off vertically, but this meant that it should also land the same way, which ended up in tearing the engine apart and destroying the plane.

The Lockheed XFV-1 Salmon
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