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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:30:50 PM EDT
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Quoted: The Caproni-Stipa. /thread. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/bytor94/StipaCarproniaorginal.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/bytor94/StipaCarpronia.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni Another Caproni  The CA.60 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60 Own Page 2  |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:33:58 PM EDT
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The Caproni-Stipa. /thread. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/bytor94/StipaCarproniaorginal.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/bytor94/StipaCarpronia.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni Another Caproni http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/CaproniCa.60.jpg The CA.60 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60 Own Page 2
Flying houseboat? |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:36:35 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:37:20 PM EDT
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/C-23A-7.jpg/800px-C-23A-7.jpg C-23 Sherpa. We had most of the USAF fleet of them at the base I grew up on, in W. Germany, Zweibrücken AB. flown on the civilian version of that many times as that was the only plane US Air flew into my hometown for years |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:38:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:39:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:40:39 PM EDT
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http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/ground-effect/lun01.jpg Here's another great candidate from Primorski-land... Thats not actually a plane though is it? I thought those were supposed to be sea skimmers. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:41:56 PM EDT
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Quoted: Ground-Effect Vehicles.Quoted: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/ground-effect/lun01.jpg Here's another great candidate from Primorski-land... Thats not actually a plane though is it? I thought those were supposed to be sea skimmers. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:43:01 PM EDT
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If it can take off and land safely, and if the crew can manage to get me to my destination on time and with my baggage intact....frankly, I dont care much what it looks like on the outside 
Function over form in this case. Now, for a personal, private airplane....hey...get one with a Ferrari hood ornament for all I care. 
Serious question....regarding paint jobs on aircraft. I dont see a lot of variation. Military planes are generally grey. Almost all commercial aircraft are mainly white, with some artwork here and there. Southwest seems to be the lone standout with their red and blue scheme. American used to go with the shiny polished metal look (I think several others did back in the day as well) The question....is the reason for the lack of imaginative paint jobs a function of cost, function, or something else? Given the pricetag for a plane, I dont see the overhead of a fancy color skin being a major issue. Why are there no fire engine red planes? An all black one would be cool...like gloss black, with some chrome accents. Why not that paint that changes color as the light hits it from varying angles? Weight. Thats a shitload of paint. That and maintinence. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:45:36 PM EDT
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/C-23A-7.jpg/800px-C-23A-7.jpg C-23 Sherpa. We had most of the USAF fleet of them at the base I grew up on, in W. Germany, Zweibrücken AB. I had the chance to fly them when the AF first got 'em. I passed...didn't think it's be fun to fly with a paper bag on my head
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:45:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 4:57:31 PM EDT
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Thats the USS Ted Kennedy right? |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:06:22 PM EDT
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That was my first thought, as well. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:25:39 PM EDT
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Alltime uh-gah-lee-est airplane award goes to the:
Polish LWS 4 Zubr But (dis)honorable mention goes to the French. Aircraft so breathtakingly ugly, they're beautiful.... par exemple.... 
Amiot 143 
Potez 540 
Dassault-Breguet Alize 
Breguet Provence |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:33:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:36:58 PM EDT
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Fairey Gannet
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:54:30 PM EDT
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/C-23A-7.jpg/800px-C-23A-7.jpg C-23 Sherpa. We had most of the USAF fleet of them at the base I grew up on, in W. Germany, Zweibrücken AB. I was there from 88-91...I left when I was 6. I remember most of my dad's friends flew them. My dad flew RF-4s there. Heh, my dad fixed what your dad broke.
Well, a decade removed. He retired at Zwei in '79, stayed on working as a civilian depot worker for LSI for a few years, until they moved the depot work. I lived there from '75 to '89, and after a year in the states, from '90 through to graduation in '92. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:55:20 PM EDT
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Okay, you win, that one just makes me want to toss my cookies. At least the other planes here do something USEFUL. 
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Posted: 5/31/2010 5:57:34 PM EDT
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We always seem to have beauty contests on here, how about something different? I'll start with the transavia airtruck: http://aerovideos.com/images/photosPage/transavia.jpg I think you won your own thread.
That is about as ugly as a plane could get. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 6:17:40 PM EDT
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P5M - there were a couple of versions. And my dad's last flying job in the Navy was a training squadron that had these. VT-31 at NAS Corpus Christie, Texas |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 6:22:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 6:41:06 PM EDT
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They all three fly large aircraft parts (and in the case of the super guppy, spacecraft parts) from place to place. Airbus originally used a super guppy themselves, before they built the beluga. The LCF has a hinged tail for loading: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/747_400LCF_DREAM_LIFTER.jpg The beluga has a nose that opens upward for loading:[ I have actually seen the Dream Lifter. It was on the tarmac at the airport in Charleston, SC while I was there. I had to look it up when I got home to find out what I had seen... Quite a piece of equipment... |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:02:19 PM EDT
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http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Visschedijk/7263.jpg http://www.flugzeuginfo.net/acimages/m15_stevewilliams.jpg http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/la/m15/m15-3.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/WSK-Mielec_M-15_1.jpg/800px-WSK-Mielec_M-15_1.jpg I'm assuming Russian? |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:03:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:04:58 PM EDT
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If it can take off and land safely, and if the crew can manage to get me to my destination on time and with my baggage intact....frankly, I dont care much what it looks like on the outside
Function over form in this case. Now, for a personal, private airplane....hey...get one with a Ferrari hood ornament for all I care.
Serious question....regarding paint jobs on aircraft. I dont see a lot of variation. Military planes are generally grey. Almost all commercial aircraft are mainly white, with some artwork here and there. Southwest seems to be the lone standout with their red and blue scheme. American used to go with the shiny polished metal look (I think several others did back in the day as well) The question....is the reason for the lack of imaginative paint jobs a function of cost, function, or something else? Given the pricetag for a plane, I dont see the overhead of a fancy color skin being a major issue. Why are there no fire engine red planes? An all black one would be cool...like gloss black, with some chrome accents. Why not that paint that changes color as the light hits it from varying angles? Gray is good visual camo. White protects the aluminum and reflects light, keeping things more comfortable inside the plane. No paint saves weight and reflects as well as white paint, and if the plane will only last a few year anyway, you don't need to protect the aluminum. There are planes painted other colors, but it is a custom paint job usually. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:15:47 PM EDT
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Can't we have a nice thread about ugly planes without a reference to the mongrel? BTW......Fuck the Kenyan mongrel bastard. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:16:20 PM EDT
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If it can take off and land safely, and if the crew can manage to get me to my destination on time and with my baggage intact....frankly, I dont care much what it looks like on the outside
Function over form in this case. Now, for a personal, private airplane....hey...get one with a Ferrari hood ornament for all I care.
Serious question....regarding paint jobs on aircraft. I dont see a lot of variation. Military planes are generally grey. Almost all commercial aircraft are mainly white, with some artwork here and there. Southwest seems to be the lone standout with their red and blue scheme. American used to go with the shiny polished metal look (I think several others did back in the day as well) The question....is the reason for the lack of imaginative paint jobs a function of cost, function, or something else? Given the pricetag for a plane, I dont see the overhead of a fancy color skin being a major issue. Why are there no fire engine red planes? An all black one would be cool...like gloss black, with some chrome accents. Why not that paint that changes color as the light hits it from varying angles? 
Not just Southwest
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:26:34 PM EDT
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F-104 Starfighter
Just don't eject.... 
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:28:28 PM EDT
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Quoted: F-104 Starfighter Just don't eject.... http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/f104.gif http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/F-104/Small/EC90-224.jpg Seriously? You think the "missile with a man in it" is ugly? You'd be the first.  |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:33:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:34:43 PM EDT
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F-104 Starfighter Just don't eject.... http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/f104.gif http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/F-104/Small/EC90-224.jpg WTF that thing is sex . Another WTF on the buffalo ... Another on the F 35.... Now there are some good ugliest candidates in this thread |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:37:15 PM EDT
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Shorts 330.
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:44:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 7:45:22 PM EDT
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F-104 Starfighter Just don't eject.... http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/f104.gif http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/F-104/Small/EC90-224.jpg WTF that thing is sex . Another WTF on the buffalo ... Another on the F 35.... Now there are some good ugliest candidates in this thread Agreed on all points. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:43:52 PM EDT
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You don't think that that thing is ugly?
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:47:37 PM EDT
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Quoted: You don't think that that thing is ugly? He just said it was.  I'm sure it's beautiful from an engineering and manufacturing perspective, unlike the disaster that is the F-35. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:48:20 PM EDT
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You don't think that that thing is ugly? Heavy on designed in stupid, ugly follows. I worked on the production configuration and consoled myself by looking only at the plan view. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:48:25 PM EDT
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F-104 Starfighter Just don't eject.... http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/f104.gif http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/F-104/Small/EC90-224.jpg 
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:48:56 PM EDT
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You don't think that that thing is ugly? from that shot it is, from other angles its actually a pretty neat looking jet: 
It would definately had been the SLUF II |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:49:59 PM EDT
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I don't know which is worse: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/A300-600ST_1_New_Colour.JPG Then there's Boeing's newest beauty: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/350752730_9507184445_o.jpg oh God. 
Striker looks good though.
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:51:35 PM EDT
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You don't think that that thing is ugly? from that shot it is, from other angles its actually a pretty neat looking jet: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/x-32_both.jpg http://www.fighterplanephotos.com/photos/Boeing%20JSF%20X-32%20Fighter%20Plane%20Photo%20-%2001.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/X-32_take-off_crop.jpg/800px-X-32_take-off_crop.jpg It would definately had been the SLUF II The middle shot is the PWSC mockup, the others are the demonstrator. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:54:56 PM EDT
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You don't think that that thing is ugly? Heavy on design stupid, ugly follows. I worked on the production configuration and consoled myself by looking only at the plan view. Got ya. I will admit that it did look kind of neat at certain angles when flying over, but when on the ground... 
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Posted: 5/31/2010 8:56:23 PM EDT
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The middle shot is the PWSC mockup, the others are the demonstrator. I was wondering about the different canopy and why that zipperhead looked a little odd. |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 9:12:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 9:16:30 PM EDT
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The Caproni-Stipa. /thread. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b265/bytor94/StipaCarproniaorginal.jpg 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni ROTFLMAO Looks like a GeeBee went all puffer fish. 
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Posted: 5/31/2010 9:19:18 PM EDT
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http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/images/boeinglcf.jpg http://vintage-aviation.hp.infoseek.co.jp/italy_caproni-ca60_1921.jpg http://www.ovi.ch/b377/pcs/airbus2.jpg http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/11/the_aircraft_th_mn.jpg That last one looks like Peter Griffin's chin! |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 9:54:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/31/2010 10:15:12 PM EDT
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Quoted: http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/specials/images/plane_raf_nimrod_r1.jpg Only the brits could make one this hideous... I heard one take off from McChord last year (at the South Tacoma Way / SR512 park & ride). It was louder than a fucking squadron of F-15s! |
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Posted: 5/31/2010 10:16:46 PM EDT
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Budd RB-1 Conestoga
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Posted: 5/31/2010 10:46:39 PM EDT
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Here is my entries:
NASA AD-1 Oblique Wing Aircraft. Lockheed was happy to lose the Oblique Flying Wing contract, Northrop was very happy that the contract got cancelled. The hell with JD Jones. 
Boeing Peashooter, the only other fighter Boeing ever design, all others were purchased (F-15 and F-18 are McDonnell Douglas). 
Turboprop version of the A-1, only airplane that the engine took off without the rest of the airframe. |
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