The Really Bad Idea GB

[Mossie]

Awww, poor Tiggy, first time you fired them the wings would tear off!  Kind of a minimalist Mistel, the wings keep flying, but the fuselage is off like a bomb...

[Weaver]

How about a Tiger Moth Zwilling with two 40mms slung under the centre wing?....    

That'd produce a result worthy of Dick Dastardly...

CLUNK!

[Mossie]

I was thinking exactly that when I wrote it!!!

[Weaver]

I saw the recoil stopping the centre wing section so that the two fuselages swung round nose-to-nose. Then they pause just long enough for a "drat and double-drat" before dropping like a stone.....

[Weaver]

Here's another one, inspired by noting the similarity between one of those Gotha gliders and a C-119:

The glider gunship

Ensures silent approach (until the guns open up)and a greatly reduced infra-red signature (ditto), and with no pesky engines and fuel, there's that much more payload available for ammo too! Got to be a real "people person" though, because after you've spent five minutes straffing someone, you then land right next to them.....

[Stargazer]

I always thought some guys around here were kinda nuts, but I had never fathomed how utterly bonkers everybody was until I read that thread... ROTFL!!!   

[tigercat]

Martin Baker evaluation Helicopter

Troop transport with the jump hatch in front of the wing


extendable flying crane joined by a girder that works on the same principle as a firemans ladder.

[Mr.Creak]

Close Air Support Blimp.
Yes, we admit that there were 100% losses slight problems with the Mk.1, but the Mk.2 is entirely protected with titanium armour. It will never get shot down. In fact, we're having trouble getting it off the ground at all...

[NARSES2]

Close Air Support Blimp.
Yes, we admit that there were 100% losses slight problems with the Mk.1, but the Mk.2 is entirely protected with titanium armour. It will never get shot down. In fact, we're having trouble getting it off the ground at all...

Like your thinking 

[tigercat]

http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/blohm_bv-40.php

There was a proposal for a Glider fighter with possibly a bomb towed on a cable behind

[Rheged]

Sorry for the mental image, but I've just got to get this off my chest:

Blackburn Beverly Interceptor.

Olympus in cargo bay with intake and exhaust in the lower part of the nose/tail doors,

Rocket booster in the tail boom,

REALLY big radar in the upper part of the nose fairing,

Three Firestreaks in staggered echelon on each side of the fuselage, which are curiously remeniscent of the pottery ducks flying up Hilda Ogden's wall......

This is so utterly ludicrous that it needs built!   It's even more ridiculous than a Belfast gunship with an ex HMS  Nelson 16 inch gun sticking out the nose. 

[tigercat]

inspired by the Beverely Interceptor

the fighter transport

as fighters move to an all missile armament  it is decided that in order to gain an advantage aircraft need to carry more missiles than the opposition.

transports are deemed to be able to carry more missiles than other aircraft as well as being able to carry more jamming equipment in the cargo bay and more flares and chaff 

[Weaver]

inspired by the Beverely Interceptor

the fighter transport

as fighters move to an all missile armament  it is decided that in order to gain an advantage aircraft need to carry more missiles than the opposition.

transports are deemed to be able to carry more missiles than other aircraft as well as being able to carry more jamming equipment in the cargo bay and more flares and chaff 

Things like that have been seriously proposed IIRC! It's really the Douglas Missileer concept freed from the restrictions of a carrier deck.....

[Spey_Phantom]

an Avro Lancaster modified for dogfights 
IIRC, the americans did such a thing with a number of B-17's to function as escorts.

[Weaver]

Here's another one:

HUPLCLAWS: the Human Powered Light CLose Air-support Weapon System.

Based on Gossamer Condor technology, this extremely fuel-efficient combat aircraft is constructed from ultra-lightweight sustainably-forested balsa wood and clad in a skin of highly efficient ballistic polythene. Endurance has proved something of an issue, but the current recruitment drive aimed at the Olympic cycling team is thought to be very promising. Naturally stealthy, the craft is nearly invisible at altitude (theoretically, since it's self-powered ceiling is about 1000ft) and very damage resistant since most small calibre rounds pass through it without hitting anything, or indeed slowing down. Work is underway to enhance maneuverability by expanding the G-envelope beyond the current 0.1G limit.

The question of armament remains fluid at the moment. Early static tests with Hellfire missiles and 2.65" rockets had to be abandoned after the 01 prototype was burnt to a cinder, and the problem of a single round doubling the take-off weight of the aircraft was never solved. Special bombs designed to be carried within the disposable payload limits of the aircraft have been tried, but proved difficult to evaluate since the range scorers failed to notice them exploding. The 02 protoype suffered catastophic structural failure when it's M60 machine gun was fired in another static test, and current research revolves around a concept known as Minium Impact Recoil Attenuated Kinetic Low-level Engagement, or MIRAKLE, which consists of a Mauser Broomhandle pistol with reduced charge ammunition and a really, really long barrel......