Pack/pod Planes Ideas and Inspiration

[GTX_Admin]

I'm sure most of us are aware of the Fairchild XC-120 Packplane:









And there was the CH-54A:







But what about some other related ideas.

[GTX_Admin]

Some interesting articles related to this:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/clip-air-pod-airplane-concept/index.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3676816/Could-new-kind-aircraft-change-travel-forever-Revolutionary-clip-air-pod-planes-inspired-shipping-containers.html
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/future-of-flight-from-the-return-of-supersonic-travel-to-pods-that-clip-onto-planes-1.158347

[elmayerle]

Larger pack/pod helicopters derived from CH-46 or CH-47?

[jcf]

Mil Mi-10, it could carry containers as well as vehicles
driven onto its attached platform.

[Rickshaw]

I've often wondered about the CH-54.  How often did they operate with the container(s)?  Most of the pictures I've seen of them they used slung loads - often of downed aircraft, occasionally of vehicles and usually of odd sized objects in nets...