From the days when aircraft were designed by men with pencils.
Some of my favourites
Fairey Gannett
De Havilland Sea Vixen
Blackburn Beverley
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Been a while since we had an aeroplane thread. Fugly / old school
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Not sure I agree with the Sea Vixen, I think it's a really nice looking plane.
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Does moder-ish ugly count
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Binners - that's a lovely plane, as is the sea vixon
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/middle/2/7/3/0578372.jpg
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Not sure I agree with the Sea Vixen, I think it's a really nice looking plane.
Good point, I've changed the title. I bet it was done by a man with a pencil and half moon glasses though.
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All those posted so far are frankly awesome (except transapp's abomination what is that?). I particularly like the grumman. Loved Hellcats when I was kid, must have made 20 odd of them.
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Pretty much any 1930s French bomber, e.g.
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the Flying Flea always struck me as being somewhat aesthetically lacking;
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surely designed with a pencil. the merciful plane because it killed its pilot if crashed - no injured survivors
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Looks like it's from the Lada aviation division.
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I love the Blackburn Beverley. Interestingly, I can't stop looking at its over generous undercarriage (fnarf).
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Not old school, but extra ugly!
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are helicopters allowed?
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Fair enough. I think the Hellcat was just unlucky in the company it tended to be seen in
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Belphegor! I'd forgotten that one!
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Ohhh brilliant.. Being near Calshot this is topical.. Seaplanes as you say built when men played with a 2B stuck behind thier right earlobe.
Vickers Viking
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Transapp's thing from Mad Max 3 rules my world.
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I'm feeling a little bit "VietNam" this morning, so I present to you the OV-10 Bronco.
Not pretty, but one of the first model kits Iever made, and I quite like it.
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And another, not fugly though (in my eyes)
Saunders-Roe SR45 Princess, again based at Calshot.
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Not fugly, old school nostalgia for me
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Yeah baby!
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Being a five owner, I suppose I'd better post something which half the world thinks is ugly, and the other half loves.
I present the original double ugly
I'm firmly in the awesome camp for the five and the 'toom.Posted 5 months ago # -
Blackburn Beverley
I've been in the pilot's seat of one of those!
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The A10 is awesome, "lets get a *** off big gun and build a plane round it!" Still flies full of holes and half it's tail missing don't it?Posted 5 months ago # -
mmm can't find an image but the first response by Mitchell to the RAF contract brief that that gave us the Spitfire wasn't a looker. But look what did come out of it!
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Boeing X-35. Should it have lost to Lockheed's candidate? Discuss
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Should it have lost?
Yes.
Call that a nose, this is a nose!
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When the rest of the world turned up for the gliding championships in wooden, barn dorr type gliders ze germans turned up in this:
Lovely if completly unsafe!
And as an interesting side note, my first solo was in that exact Puchaz glider FXQ in the background
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The most beautiful ugly flying boat:
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Forty years on and I can still remember the contents of the Airfix catalogue..
Westland Lysander
Bristol Beaufighter
Saab Draken
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Well if we're talking about noses...
Old, but not ugly:
Old, not ugly and very shiny:
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Design with a Soviet space pen. not quite a plane or a boat, but both and neither. They also had the best name for anything ever: Ekranoplan.
If bikes were called Ekranoplans instead of bikes, roads would have painted car lanes next to the pavement and we would have the middle, and we would be allowed on motorways.Posted 5 months ago #
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