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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by Mysturji » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:02 am

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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by klr » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:06 am

The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy:
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:26 am

Ace wrote:Never heard of him :lol:

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! :nono:
Strange. He bombed London during WWII. (Or one of them there furrin places, anyway.)

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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by Mickey » Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:59 pm

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 :dono: [/beer goggles]
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by CJ » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:10 pm

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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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:17 pm

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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by klr » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:28 pm

leo-rcc wrote: ...

Hideous.
No wonder it lost to the Lockheed design. :hum:

The Kamov Ka 25. As before, adding a hulking great radome really ups the ugliness score:
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by AshtonBlack » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:33 pm

Got to say, I agree... look at what they did to this Nimrod...
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by AshtonBlack » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:40 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
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I win, thread locked.
Fail. Page 1 post 10. Me.

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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

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AshtonBlack wrote:
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I win, thread locked.
Fail. Page 1 post 10. Me.
I deleted that post. :read:
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by klr » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:48 pm

AshtonBlack wrote:Got to say, I agree... look at what they did to this Nimrod...
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I have the Airfix kit of the Nimrod. It covers a multitude of versions, but not that one thankfully ...
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #2 - Ugly aircraft!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:02 pm

Not that ugly, but still canceled.
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