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| Three Generations of Service  |
From B&W TV. Couldn't tell you what the program was tho. Yep, old. Birth certificate chiseled out of a rock... Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Go Vols! |
To me, those Flying Banana helicopters look very wrong - like it's already broken. | |||
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| Be not wise in thine own eyes  |
Not sure if this qualifies as ugly but definitely the worst name. From the Country which gave us the Spitfire, I present the Nimrod.  The British Lightning is actually uglier up close. First saw it at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 85 or 86. Design seems to be taken from an over-under shotgun. Obviously my first thought was Why?  “We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Pres. Select, Joe Biden “Let’s go, Brandon” Kelli Stavast, 2 Oct. 2021 | |||
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Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet |
Well now, Nimrod, grandson of Noah was a mighty hunter before the Lord, which would certainly seem appropriate (though numerous traditions paint Nimrod in a decidedly less favorable light). However, nimrod as a derogatory term seems pretty much confined to American slang usage that began sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s depending on which theory you believe. ______________________________________________ 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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Political Cynic |
I think the lightning had its engines mounted like that so that in the event of a failure of one you still had centerline thrust rather an asymmetrical thrust from side by side configurations no adverse yaw [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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Kimber, you beat me to it for the Nimrod and Lightning, but I'll add a few more pics of the Lightning just so everyone can see how ugly it really is..... also notice it carries stores ON TOP of the wing!!!!  [/IMG]  [/IMG] A few more... Blackburn Buccaneer. This two view drawing gives the best (or worst views of it). It's a close call between the Lightning and the Buccaneer as to which is worst.  [/IMG]---------------------------------- "These things you say we will have, we already have." "That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra." | |||
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SEPECAT Jaguar... a bit of a praying mantis look, and again stores above the wing.  [/IMG]Lastly the Hawker_Siddeley Harrier  [/IMG]---------------------------------- "These things you say we will have, we already have." "That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra." | |||
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Armed and Gregarious |
I can't believe no one has mentioned the OV-10:  It's ugly for sure, but I knew some guys who flew them, and they loved it. I'll also add the EC-135E ARIA:  Again, I know some folks that flew and loved them, but the A-7 Corsair II is not pretty at all:  ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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 -------------------------- 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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| Political Cynic |
if you're gonna go, you might as well go big  [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
It was called "SLUF" - Short Little Ugly Fellow. I love it - I think it's beautiful. Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
A plane that makes you go WTF.  | |||
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Serenity now! |
British Short Seamew   Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Four hour endurance doesn't seem like much for a sub hunter. On the other hand, longer endurance would need more room to carry sandwiches, and a potty. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
I don't think Short ever built anything that could be considered good-looking. To be fair, you can't really use flying boat (what they were most famous for) and pretty in the same sentence. | |||
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Itchy was taken |
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A Grateful American |
We had a couple of the little "bomb trucks" at Eglin in the 70s. Pilots said they were fun to drive. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Three Generations of Service |
 Oh, I dunno, I always thought the little Grummans were kinda pretty. And I really like the lines of the Catalina PBY. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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fugitive from reality |
The over/under engine design reduces frontal cross section and drag. The Lightning was not only fast for it's day, it was fast, period. Even after thd introduction of the F-15, the Lightning was faster to altitude on an intercept mission. _____________________________ 'I'm pretty fly for a white guy'. | |||
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Ah yes, a beautiful picture of one of the three V-bombers; the H-P Victor. It finished its days as a tanker. I saw one at an airshow 30-some years ago. It's smaller than it appears. The other 2 V-bombers where the Avro Vulcan of Black Buck One fame to the Falkland Islands, and the Vickers Valiant. | |||
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