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.
Challenge: name an airplane uglier than the Lloyd Luftkreuzer
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In the Commonwealth Air Training Plan the first thing young pilots learnt was how unmanageable their new mounts became when they went into heat.
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.
Or the beer holder, as the case may be.
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.
At least that could actually fly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westland_Dreadnought
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The Gallic 'Fierce Face', indeed
Many moons ago, I had that Heller model. I assume the scale of molding was reasonably correct, but take my comments with a grain of salt. Oh my, was that plane slab-sided. Also, the wing root (of the model) was nearly the thickness of the fuselage. It's hard to imagine that just a few years later, the same aircraft company created the very sleek Amiot 350 series of bombers
*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
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Or pride. Built from a pre-1903 design to nullify a patent held by the Wright Brothers' company.
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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.
It's not just early aircraft that got hit with the ugly stick.
The famous Guffaw fighter.
During the 1930s they were still earning how to build metal cantilever wings, so when in doubt, they built wings deeper and stronger.
