Well when a daddy aeroplane and a mummy aeroplane hug in a special way.
In the Commonwealth Air Training Plan the first thing young pilots learnt was how unmanageable their new mounts became when they went into heat.
Well when a daddy aeroplane and a mummy aeroplane hug in a special way.
Some of the selections in this thread are to me more unusual or bizarre looking then ugly. But of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
... ok, someone was on a mix of drugs and poetry...Behold!
The Curtis-Goupil Duck
Some of the selections in this thread are to me more unusual or bizarre looking then ugly. But of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The Gallic 'Fierce Face', indeed
*edit* To cut the Amiot designers a bit of slack, the French Air Force in the 20's & 30's got whip-sawed all over the sky over what its mission was supposed to be. Lots of frequently conflicting strategic and tactical threads got woven into the designs
... ok, someone was on a mix of drugs and poetry...
Or pride. Built from a pre-1903 design to nullify a patent held by the Wright Brothers' company.
Also, the wing root (of the model) was nearly the thickness of the fuselage.
It's not just early aircraft that got hit with the ugly stick.
FWIW, I believe a lot of multi-engine inter-war aircraft had a design feature of the engines being accessible in flight for engineers to maintain them if necessary. The wing root was essentially a covered walkway to the engines on some designs.
Literally ANY of the Philips multiplanes. But the crown jewel of why has to be this piece of literal garbage.