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In Contention - World's Ugliest Aircraft
September 30, 2017, 07:04 AM
PHPaulIn Contention - World's Ugliest Aircraft
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Originally posted by trapper189:
^^^^What was the Victor's vector?
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Originally posted by PHPaul:
KZ, I was scrolling from the bottom up, checking for new posts, so I saw the image before I saw your comment.
The first thing I said when the picture came up was Jimmy Durante!
(We may be dating ourselves a bit here...)
I saw him when I was a kid every year around Christmas on Frosty the Snowman. If you remember him from something else, you must be really old.
From B&W TV. Couldn't tell you what the program was tho.
Yep, old. Birth certificate chiseled out of a rock...
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September 30, 2017, 07:50 AM
Oz_ShadowTo me, those Flying Banana helicopters look very wrong - like it's already broken.
September 30, 2017, 09:17 AM
kimber1911Not 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?
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Otto Pilotquote:
Originally posted by kimber1911:
Not sure if this qualifies as ugly but definitely the worst name.
From the Country which gave us the Spitfire, I present the Nimrod...
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.
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September 30, 2017, 01:20 PM
nhtagmemberI 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
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September 30, 2017, 07:54 PM
JoseyWales2quote:
Originally posted by kimber1911:
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.
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!!!!
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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.
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September 30, 2017, 08:18 PM
JoseyWales2SEPECAT Jaguar... a bit of a praying mantis look, and again stores above the wing.
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Lastly the Hawker_Siddeley Harrier
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September 30, 2017, 11:45 PM
DMFI 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:
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October 01, 2017, 12:24 AM
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October 01, 2017, 12:39 AM
nhtagmemberif you're gonna go, you might as well go big
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October 01, 2017, 02:01 PM
Hound Dogquote:
Originally posted by DMF:
Again, I know some folks that flew and loved them, but the A-7 Corsair II is not pretty at all:
It was called "SLUF" - Short Little Ugly Fellow.
I love it - I think it's beautiful.
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October 01, 2017, 02:25 PM
egregoreA plane that makes you go WTF.
October 01, 2017, 07:17 PM
4x5British Short Seamew
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
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V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by 4x5:
British Short Seamew
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.
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egregorequote:
British Short Seamew
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.
October 01, 2017, 09:41 PM
scratchyquote:
Originally posted by DMF:
There was a reason we called it a SLUF.
"Again, I know some folks that flew and loved them, but the A-7 Corsair II is not pretty at all:"
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October 01, 2017, 10:20 PM
sigmonkeyWe had a couple of the little "bomb trucks" at Eglin in the 70s. Pilots said they were fun to drive.
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PHPaulquote:
Originally posted by egregore:
[To be fair, you can't really use flying boat (what they were most famous for) and pretty in the same sentence.
Oh, I dunno, I always thought the little Grummans were kinda pretty. And I really like the lines of the Catalina PBY.
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October 02, 2017, 05:51 AM
SgtGoldquote:
Originally posted by kimber1911:
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?
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.
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October 02, 2017, 07:59 AM
NikonUserquote:
Originally posted by pbramlett:
Handley Page Victor.
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.