I am starting a small series on the “odd variants” of some aircraft types. This is the first post 🙂 Please upvote if you would like to see more ✈️
Honeywell owns a 757-200 with RR-engines. They have fitted their 757 with a small, 3rd, wing to test avionics, engines and other instruments. So far it has carried a jet engine, prop engine and instruments..
It is an early 757 from 1983: the 5th delivered 757. Delivered to the now defunct Eastern Airlines. Honeywell aquired it in 2005 as N757HW.
Picture source // aeroprints.com
Very cool!
![[odd variants] Honeywell's Star-trek a-like 757(commons.wikimedia.org)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N757HW_Boeing_757_Honeywell_Flight_Test_(8914954986).jpg){kind=link}
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I thought this was a shitty photoshop at first
Haha, Google the registration (N757HW) and you will find some nice additional photos from other angles of this aircraft. Some photo-angles definitely look like if the aircraft is not real.
How would this aircraft behave in-flight? With the added drag on the 3rd-wing side, the aircraft will most likely pull to that side. Imagine flying a cross-wind landing and having the added drag. Nice pilot challenge ;-)