Challenge: name an airplane uglier than the Lloyd 40.08 Luftkreuzer bomber.
Only a single prototype was built in Austria-Hungary during 1916, but it never flew!
Instead, it tipped over on its nose during taxi-tests revealing a centre-of-gravity that was way too high and too far forward.
Despite three engines, the huge tri-plane proved over-weight and never lifted off the ground. Like some of Lloyd’s single-engined prototypes, the Luftkreuzer’s pilot had few windows and zero visibility directly ahead. By the end of the war, the single prototype was dispatched to the scrap yard!
Only a single prototype was built in Austria-Hungary during 1916, but it never flew!
Instead, it tipped over on its nose during taxi-tests revealing a centre-of-gravity that was way too high and too far forward.
Despite three engines, the huge tri-plane proved over-weight and never lifted off the ground. Like some of Lloyd’s single-engined prototypes, the Luftkreuzer’s pilot had few windows and zero visibility directly ahead. By the end of the war, the single prototype was dispatched to the scrap yard!