Beauty is in the eye of the beholder-Aircraft Edition

The Blackburn A.D. Scout
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/barracks/77680d1332979622-beauty-eye-beholder-aircraft-edition-scout-jpg

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I have worse.

 

A description would be redundant!

 

How about this Fokker?

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/attachment.php?attachmentid=77683&d=1332979824


Fokker V8.

 

As we say where I come from and ignoring Zas very well thought out guide lines.This if it was a female would be called a "mess".

For the none North London cant speaking it would mean a beast+10. hehe

 

How about this Fokker?


http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/attachment.php?attachmentid=77683&d=1332979824


Fokker V8.

Proof that alcohol and aircraft design don't mix!

 

Proof that alcohol and aircraft design don't mix!

That just made me think of Terry Thomas and those Magnificent Men in There Flying Machines

 

What about this strange one from Blohm und Voss, the 141.

Built the Airfix model many years ago.

 

U - G - L - Y
It ain't got no alibi,
It's ugly hey, hey, it's ugly.

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The Seamew.

 

Here is my beast, the Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley, the Ichabod Crane of combat aircraft. It was the airborne expression of the extreme bomber-will-always-get-through-ideology, being slow as molasses and weakly armed. It also looked like an etiolated schoolmaster with a pipe in his mouth. Even several web pages devoted to it comment on its ugliness. Incredibly, this dog was still being built as late as 1943. I may be too hard on it, but it sure was ugly.

 

U - G - L - Y
It ain't got no alibi,
It's ugly hey, hey, it's ugly.

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/attachment.php?attachmentid=77727&d=1332984552

The Seamew.

Hideous

 

A beauty.

 

Thruxton Gadly 1967 -


The theory:



And here is what in a charitable moment some might call an ugly duckling. Sadly the Autogyro never made it into the air. The rotor had an electric clutch to engage to get the rotor spinning for take off and at a given RPM disenage and revert to true autogyro sadly the clutch did not comply with the theory and it converted a lot of cash into high speed scrap metal. The team building it ran out of capital and now 'she!' is on display at the Helicopter Museum. I was a young apprentice and made a few components.





Sadly the beast never made it into the air, some might say that would have been trespassing. Nearing completion it was wheeled out behind the workshops and tethered. The pilot climbed aboard and started the machine it was like Strictly Come Dancing on wheels as the rotor whipped around (electric clutch) a noisy crunch as splinters of pusher prop showered the area - now it was doing the Argentine Tango as the out of balance prop shook the beast! They had not cleared the ground of gravel and a stone had hit the prop! The pilot got out and tried to get the flame from his lighter to meet the end of his fag trying to co-ordinate a fit of the shakes.The prop beautiful varnished wood with just one yellow tip remained on the workshop wall for years. Taken to Thruxton for the big day where the ugly duckling would become a swallow. The electric clutch engaged the rotor whipping around (it would disengage once the given RP was reached) she hurtled (!) down the runway, the electric clutch a costly lump decided that going airborne was not on the cards and promptly disintegrated. That was as near to the heavens it got, capital gone the attempt was abandoned.

 

In case there is any doubt the Damned Colonials were able to design ugly aircraft, here is proof they were. The Budd Conestoga.





The Budd C-93/RB-1 Conestoga was the first aircraft of original design to be fabricated entirely of shotwelded stainless steel. It was designed to meet a U.S. Navy specification for a twin-engined cargo carrier and troop transport. The Army version was known as the C-93, but the initial order was canceled due to delays caused by manufacturing problems. The Navy version was designated the RB-1, but only 25 of the initial 200 ordered were delivered before cancellation of that order.

 

Although at times they can do some proper things like the Convair F-106:



(Please remember to add the designation, sometimes the subject can be so outlandish that we need to know what it was so we can exorcise it )

 

Freddie Laker had DC/C54s converted to the the Carvair:

 

A beauty
Bristol Freighter

 

That just made me think of Terry Thomas and those Magnificent Men in There Flying Machines

Yes, but those in the film were replicas of actual flyable planes

Can you pedal, Tim?



(The Cyclogiro)

 

Replicas designed by Ray Hilborne: amongst others.


Originally Posted by wowtank
That just made me think of Terry Thomas and those Magnificent Men in There Flying Machines


Avro Triplane (Shuttleworth now for Magnificent men)

Designed for Hall Aggregates (Thorpe Park)

View attachment 74948 For Blue Max film designed for Doug Bianchi

 

Call it ugly if you will, but I always loved this brute!



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Dare I

a beauty
Skyraider