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PrickleHead
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Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 10:32 AM UTC
While I was perusing a list of the aircraft Eric "Winkle" Brown had flown I came across this rather ugly looking thing, the Short Sturgeon SB.3 ASW
Wondering if anyone has a favourite "ugly"?
Wondering if anyone has a favourite "ugly"?
JClapp
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Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 05:07 PM UTC
Many, actually.
Shorts have built a number of wonderfully ugly aircraft, that Sturgeon is new to me, very nice find.
The Amiot 143M is near the top of my list -
Shorts have built a number of wonderfully ugly aircraft, that Sturgeon is new to me, very nice find.
The Amiot 143M is near the top of my list -
Tojo72
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Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 05:25 PM UTC
Can't say it's a favorite,but I saw this one last year at a museum
Antilles
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Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 07:18 PM UTC
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The Amiot 143M is near the top of my list
Wow, the Amiot looks similar to one of my favourites the LWS 6 Zubr.
Is there any family relation?
Oliver
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 12:33 AM UTC
The Fairey Gannet. It's the Pug of aviation.
Scrodes
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 12:57 AM UTC
The Fleet Fort. The only aircraft designed and built by Canadians during the second world war.
There are two of them at the museum I volunteer at - one of them is airworthy and gets flown regularly.
I have a soft spot for it.
phantom_phanatic309
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 01:23 AM UTC
Shorts Skyvan.
Always looked like it was made from spare parts to me. The fuselage is too short and too fat, the wings look too narrow in chord to lift it into the air and the engines are clearly from an RC model! Clearly no attempt was made at aerodynamics.
It was however, a wonderfully useful little aeroplane that worked hard the world over. The Omani Airforce even used them as makeshift bombers during the war in the Dhofar.
Jessie_C
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 01:34 AM UTC
Transavia Airtruk
PZL M-15 Belphegor (yes, that is a jet engine above the cabin):
PZL M-15 Belphegor (yes, that is a jet engine above the cabin):
CReading
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 04:21 AM UTC
The Ilyushin IL-102
phantom_phanatic309
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 04:41 AM UTC
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Transavia Airtruk
PZL M-15 Belphegor (yes, that is a jet engine above the cabin):
Wasn't an Airtruk featured in Mad Max 3?
And I have never seen the Belphegor before. It's so weird I want one!
Jessie_C
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 06:57 AM UTC
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Wasn't an Airtruk featured in Mad Max 3?
Indeed it was. Many people thought they had dreamed it up in the special effects department.
phantom_phanatic309
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Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 10:52 PM UTC
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Quoted TextWasn't an Airtruk featured in Mad Max 3?
Indeed it was. Many people thought they had dreamed it up in the special effects department.
Well if there was ever an aeroplane that looks like it has been cobbled together in the post-apocolyptic Australian outback, the Airtruk is it!
The undercarriage frightens me! Not much space between the nose and main gear.
Cantstopbuyingkits
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 12:16 AM UTC
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Quoted TextWasn't an Airtruk featured in Mad Max 3?
Indeed it was. Many people thought they had dreamed it up in the special effects department.
I can see why. It looks like one of those Egg planes Hasegawa released scaled up into a real aeroplane
48thscale
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 01:29 AM UTC
I seriously like this thread, keep these coming please!
AussieReg
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 01:50 AM UTC
Well since I started the "Personal Favourites" thread I suppose I just can't resist chiming in here with the Westland-Hill Mk V . . . . .
Cheers, D
Cheers, D
CReading
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 02:19 AM UTC
PrickleHead
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 04:42 AM UTC
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Well since I started the "Personal Favourites" thread I suppose I just can't resist chiming in here with the Westland-Hill Mk V . . . . .
Cheers, D
That cannot fly! Seriously?
betheyn
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 04:54 AM UTC
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That cannot fly! Seriously?
But amazingly the Caproni Ca.60 “Noviplano” did
“a nine-wing flying boat intended to be a prototype for a 100-passenger trans-atlantic airliner. It featured eight engines and three sets of triple wings..
The prototype only made one short flight on 4 March 1921 over Lake Maggiore in Italy. The aircraft attained an altitude of only 18 m (60 ft) and crashed shortly thereafter, breaking up on impact. The pilot escaped unscathed…”
Andy
Jessie_C
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:04 AM UTC
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That cannot fly! Seriously?
It could fly. Seriously!
JClapp
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:42 AM UTC
The Savoia-Marchetti_S.55 was a quite successful design
Jessie_C
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:59 AM UTC
Apart from the engines the S.55 is quite pretty. Not like
Jessie_C
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:01 AM UTC
Jessie_C
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:10 AM UTC
Or the all-time ugliest, the Vedovilli of 1911
JPTRR
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:34 AM UTC
I will have to go into hiding for this but, honestly, look at this lumpy, non-symmetrical, bulb-nosed, anteater-nosed, gangling winged, sway backed, dog's-hind-leg-shaped rear fuselage, neither rounded nor squared example of Teutonic malevolent design, the FW 190 Dora. It is to airframes what a llama is compared to a horse.
Ugly, but just too cool!
Ugly, but just too cool!
PrickleHead
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Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:52 AM UTC
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Quoted TextThat cannot fly! Seriously?
It could fly. Seriously!
Well I'll be!
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