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The Armstrong Flight Research Center is home to NASA's experimental plane program, X-Planes. Here are six that are very strange and uniquely designed.

X-planes are a class of experimental aircraft designed to test and demonstrate new innovations in flight—some were created for NASA, others for DARPA or the U.S. military. The first X-plane, X-1, was flown by Chuck Yeager in the 1940s and was the first craft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Over the decades, these aircraft have pushed the boundaries of what humans can do in the air. Here are some of the more bizarre products of our taxpayer dollars, ones that confound our typical understan

Both bizarre and badass, these experimental planes tested new strategies for flight.