At Permalink #3 [above] I pointed toward Burnelli. Now I will add Bartini:
The 5000-ton flying aircraft carrier wouldn't have had retractable wings, though.
Here it is today:
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartini_Beriev_VVA-14
The wings aren't retracted so much as laying on the ground.
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