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I think the Victor looks like a spaceship in the pic, not a plane! Kind of retro cool. ______________________________________________ Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon | |||
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USAF Avrocar circa 1960  “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” – Barack Hussein Obama, January 23, 2009 | |||
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Most anything by the Brits in WWII, with the exception of the Spitfire, Hurricane, or Lancaster. It's amazing that the same country that birthed the Spitfire and Mosquito (some of the most astoundingly beautiful aircraft of all time) created monstrosities such as: Blackburn Roc  Fairey Barracuda  Fleet Shadower  Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
 I loved this plane is a kid but, they named it the flying salami for a reason. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
I love it. It looks like it was designed by Hermes, to carry loads of famous stylish typewriters, or some such. | |||
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This and the Vulcan I find quite fascinating. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^ Yeah, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I LOVE the Victor. It's such a classic design (one of the 3 V-Bombers; the last great bombers from the Brits - Vulcan, Victor, and Valiant). Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
No doubt from a brief window in history between radio shows and the dawn of cable and the internet, back before we were all-but-certain aliens haven't visited us in actual flying saucers, back when UFOs were more plausible, a group of folks in our own government and military decided we needed to check out the idea for ourselves, because, you know, maybe it was that saucer shape that lets them fly across the universe, and thus... the Avrocar...  | |||
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Chip away the stone |
Antonov AN-22  | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
 I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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| Just an ACARS message with feelings  |
Ain't nothing ugly at all about this thing and it's 3 spinster sisters. But I am a little biased... ____________________________ 220/229/228/226/P6/225/XO/SP2022/239 | |||
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(Wasn't me) | Something wild is loose  |
Klingon Bird of Prey, Mark I.... "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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 "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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The Ugly goes all the way back: -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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I can't stand the osprey. It's hideous, Linda like goldendoodles, labradoodles etc. just shouldn't be War Eagle! | |||
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Boeing YC14 which never went into full production.  Sometimes, you gotta roll the hard six | |||
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Ya’ll are a bunch of haters. Each and every one of those aircraft are beautiful, and I’d love to fly em.
I saw that thing in the Air Force Museum last month, and calling it’s construction sketchy looking is being generous. Seems they couldn’t get it more than a few feet above the ground, as it would start wobbling like a plate. | |||
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Clearly the winner of the "ugliest Aircraft" HAS to be the German B&V BV141   Rolan Kraps SASS Regulator Gainesville, Georgia. NRA Range Safety Officer NRA Certified Instructor - Pistol / Personal Protection Inside the Home | |||
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 Good thing Burt was still soiling his nappy when Boeing was called to action... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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^^^^^^ To paraphrase Chuck Yeager, "First time I saw a plane that ugly, I shot it down!"  -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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