Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Oh, it is a plane.

There was a good reception from our 18 Strangest Airports post, so I thought I'd continue the trend with some of the world's strangest airplanes.

The following YouTube video shows some pretty strange looking flying machines, and I must confess I did a quick research on some of them to make sure they were in fact real, and not Photoshopped (just search strange airplanes, and you'll see galleries of photos that have obviously been digitally manipulated). Anyway, the planes in here check out, and if you search their names, you can find articles on Wikipedia and other sites that provide some good info.

Enjoy!