NASA M2-F1 “Flying Bathtub”
The NASA M2-F1 was one of the oddest-looking aircraft ever to take to the skies—so strange that it earned the nickname “the flying bathtub.”
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The NASA M2-F1 was one of the oddest-looking aircraft ever to take to the skies—so strange that it earned the nickname “the flying bathtub.”
This experimental aircraft from the late 1970s and early ’80s was created to test a bold aerodynamic concept: the oblique wing.
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