[lostllama]

The Heinkel Lerche was another similar design.

[The E]

However, the brits were the first ones to actually build an aircraft with motors on the rotator tips: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne


Also, in terms of fun cold war designs, let's hear it for PROJECT PLUTO and the SLAM.

[Mika]

While not exactly Cold War stuff, here's a WWII story called Night of the bombers. Think of the nerve required to pull something like that off. Get in the middle of enemy formation in the middle of night and bomb them on final approach.

There's a wonderful story related to the aerial defense of Helsinki from the ground perspective in WWII, but there is no English translation. The result was that of 20 000 bombs dropped on the city (about 2/3 of the amount dropped in Dresden), about 3% ever hit it... There was even a Soviet Air Marshal who got a medal for flattening the city of Helsinki, only to find out that it actually wasn't when he personally visited it.

[MR_T3D]

Increasing icebergs' repertoire for sinking things...

I've been to the lake where they tested the scale model for that!

[BengalTiger]

For those who don't recognize it, it's a nuke.

[NGTM-1R]

But a very bad idea nuke.

[Nuke]

For those who don't recognize it, it's a nuke.

its a thing of beauty