World's Ugliest Plane?

C J Campbell wrote:

Indeed. The competition for world's ugliest plane is stiff. The Wilga comes
to mind...

The "hardtop" Navion has some votes.

yikes, I can't believe the tail completely unhinges about 2/3 to 3/4 of
the way back.

Bucky wrote:
yikes, I can't believe the tail completely unhinges about 2/3 to 3/4 of
the way back.


Airflow keeps it in place. G

It's able to make one hell of a left turn!

Kev wrote:

Gives new meaning to taking it from behind...



Now THAT'S funny!

C J Campbell wrote:
Wall Street Journal today ran an article on the Boeing Large Cargo Freighter,
the "Dreamlifter." It is one ugly plane. A CFI and student in a Skyhawk were
darn near killed in November when they flew through the monster's wake
turbulence. They were flipped over and lost 1000 feet of altitude and pulled
out just 150 above the water. This thing has 65,000 cubic feet of cargo
capacity -- triple that of a 747. It will fly Dreamliner nose sections from
Wichita to Seattle for final assembly.

Why did they fly through its wake?

Matt

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:50:15 -0800, Matt Whiting wrote
(in article ):

C J Campbell wrote:
Wall Street Journal today ran an article on the Boeing Large Cargo
Freighter,
the "Dreamlifter." It is one ugly plane. A CFI and student in a Skyhawk
were
darn near killed in November when they flew through the monster's wake
turbulence. They were flipped over and lost 1000 feet of altitude and
pulled
out just 150 above the water. This thing has 65,000 cubic feet of cargo
capacity -- triple that of a 747. It will fly Dreamliner nose sections from
Wichita to Seattle for final assembly.

Why did they fly through its wake?

Matt

Who knows? Maybe they were vectored by the tower. They pulled that stunt on
me once when I was a student pilot returning from a solo cross country. I
learned about wake turbulence from that. Lucky I wasn't killed.

I am a purest. There is no such thing as an ugly airplane.

Danny Deger

In article ,
"Danny Deger" wrote:

I am a purest. There is no such thing as an ugly airplane.

Danny Deger

Perhaps -- but there are, and have been, some that made a pretty good
attempt at it!

Danny Deger wrote:
I am a purest. There is no such thing as an ugly airplane.

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Sure there is. Lookit the An-2.

www.vectorsite.net/avan2.html

But there's a difference between ugly and grotesque. An ugly woman may
be a wonderful person in every way. An-2 is kinda like that. (Once
you get her going, she'll always give you a good ride :-)

-R.S.Hoover

BobHoover wrote:
Danny Deger wrote:
I am a purest. There is no such thing as an ugly airplane.

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Sure there is. Lookit the An-2.

www.vectorsite.net/avan2.html

I walked through one of those at an airshow. The inside is as ugly as
the outside!