Ugliest plane of all time

Seth Masia wrote:

Australian crop duster.
http://www.studenten.net/customasp/axl/image/foto/21-7-2005-11-8-transavia_pl-12_airtruck_(002)_take-off.jpg

Thanks for that. Living in the States, I always wondered if the aircraft
in "Mad Max 3" was as a real aircraft.

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Seth,
The ugliest planes are the neglected ones sitting out in the field
with bare metal spots, bent prop and flat tires. To me, all planes are
beautiful when they can fly.

Hai Longworth

Seth Masia wrote:
How about the Transavia Airtruck?


Grumman Goose

Whatever it is the Germans probably flew it in WW2. My vote is for the
Junkers Ju88.

The Luftwaffe had a penchant for ugly airplanes, with few exceptions
IMHO.

My vote goes to the Westland P12. Back in the early stages of WWII, when the
British were still afraid of invasion, they designed this as a ground attack
aircraft. They took a Westland Lysander (already not beautiful) and cut off the
rear fuselage and empennage. They then grafted on a second wing in place of the
tail, mounted low with vertical stabilizers on the ends. Looked sort of like the
tail of a B-24 Liberator. Then they mounted a large turret with two cannon on
top and to the rear of this second wing.

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/fl...olibri.htm#p12

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

Good one, George. Sometimes these ugly ducklings look like they'd be fun to
fly: really maneurverable at low altitudes thanks to short-coupling and big
control surfaces, which look so ungainly.

Here's a real horror, even by French standards: Amiot 143, a 1931 bomber:
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine...120/amiot.html

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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My vote goes to the Westland P12. Back in the early stages of WWII, when
the British were still afraid of invasion, they designed this as a ground
attack aircraft. They took a Westland Lysander (already not beautiful) and
cut off the rear fuselage and empennage. They then grafted on a second
wing in place of the tail, mounted low with vertical stabilizers on the
ends. Looked sort of like the tail of a B-24 Liberator. Then they mounted
a large turret with two cannon on top and to the rear of this second wing.

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/fl...olibri.htm#p12

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

Wow, that's ugly. Wasn't that on the cover a book about strange planes?

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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My vote goes to the Westland P12. Back in the early stages of WWII, when
the
British were still afraid of invasion, they designed this as a ground
attack
aircraft. They took a Westland Lysander (already not beautiful) and cut
off the
rear fuselage and empennage. They then grafted on a second wing in place
of the
tail, mounted low with vertical stabilizers on the ends. Looked sort of
like the
tail of a B-24 Liberator. Then they mounted a large turret with two cannon
on
top and to the rear of this second wing.

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/fl...olibri.htm#p12

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.



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Marco Leon wrote:
Wow, that's ugly. Wasn't that on the cover a book about strange planes?

Yep. "The World's Strangest Aircraft", by Michael Taylor.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

I'm always surpised at how so many people think the F-4 Phantom is an ugly
plane. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The start of winglets
and the elevators' aggressive angling always struck me very asthetically
"cool."

Marco Leon

"Casey Wilson" N2310D @ gmail.com wrote in message
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"Seth Masia" wrote in message
news
How about the Transavia Airtruck?


I'm stuck between the F-4 Phantom and the Russian AN-3





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Even it's mother couldn't....

UGLEE!

George Patterson wrote:
My vote goes to the Westland P12.