A plane with a jet propeller twisting around the cockpit? Why not, according to some plans of the Nazis to build this crazy machine called Triebflügel. More funny and crazy inventions at the Cracked.com link.
Standard helicopters are that rare Trapper Keeper doodle that actually worked. (...) The main hurdle was controlling the damn thing: Every time they tried to build one, the body of the air craft would spin right along with the blades. But by WWII, the Germans had finally done it, using a second propeller to create helicopters that could safely fly from point A to point B. Hitler looked at the package of bad assery, and decided that the whole thing just wasn't quite crazy enough. And so the Nazis decided to spice things up with a bunch of ramjet engines.
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