Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!
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I'm not sure if this is the front or back.
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The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy:
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Strange. He bombed London during WWII. (Or one of them there furrin places, anyway.)Ace wrote:Never heard of him
That aircraft is still a bitch! It's a well known pilot killer. It's so unstable and very unsafe that it has killed many pilots.
It's deadly!
I would refuse to just sit in the cockpit.
I've only studied bits of it and taken in some info from pilots who flew it. They say all it wants to do is crash.
I'd never fly it!
The GeeBee was great because it was unstable. "It does acrobatic on the ground." The F-117 is the same way. No human can fly it unassisted. Without thousands of computer-assisted corrections every minute it would truly earn its name of "Wobblin' Goblin".
Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!
I have a problem with this thread.
I find it hard to call any flying machine "ugly".
Some aircraft are just less attractive than others [/beer goggles]
I find it hard to call any flying machine "ugly".
Some aircraft are just less attractive than others [/beer goggles]
Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!
The Westland Lysander shown in the pictures is the TT (Target Tug) version the earlier versions were very much better looking http://www.historyofwar.org/pictures_W_ ... ander.html
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No wonder it lost to the Lockheed design. :hum:leo-rcc wrote: ...
Hideous.
The Kamov Ka 25. As before, adding a hulking great radome really ups the ugliness score:
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Got to say, I agree... look at what they did to this Nimrod...
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Fail. Page 1 post 10. Me.
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I deleted that post.AshtonBlack wrote:Fail. Page 1 post 10. Me.
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AshtonBlack wrote:Got to say, I agree... look at what they did to this Nimrod...
I have the Airfix kit of the Nimrod. It covers a multitude of versions, but not that one thankfully ...
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Not that ugly, but still canceled.
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