Author Topic: name this plane.... (Read 350 times)

jjdude · « **on:** January 12, 2003, 12:22:17 AM »

name this odd looking plane

whgates3 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 12, 2003, 01:07:06 AM »

Experimental Aeroplane No. 136 = Lysander modified to carry 4×0.303 turret for nightfighter duty. a one-of-a-kind A/C & quite high on the World's Ugliest Aircraft Survey

SELECTOR · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2003, 10:12:46 AM »

looks like we had a very horny lanc 9 months earlyer..and this is its baby.. its a real monster..but someone must have loved it..

hazed- · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2003, 11:04:09 AM »

this was the first attempt to make a 'cut and shunt'. welding together two crashed vehicles to form a new one and fool people into thinking they have a perfectly new vehicle.

Unfortunately no one told the idiot who made it that the lysander and the lancaster were two different aircraft

jjdude · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2003, 01:09:11 PM »

close but the plane infact is a westland p12, a modification of the lysander, this plane had 2x 20mm cannons instead and was built for the purpose of "beach straffing" to ward off german invasion, or striking at supporting surface vessels. The plane was sent into official trials but was never put into production because of the diminishing threat of invasion.