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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: straffo on July 22, 2002, 08:15:27 AM

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: straffo on July 22, 2002, 08:15:27 AM

no it's not a french plane (hint : look at the paint job ;))

now name it :)

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: SELECTOR on July 22, 2002, 08:18:17 AM

thats not as ugly as a P38..

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Shiva on July 22, 2002, 09:43:14 AM

I'm sorry, but that can't compare to the Waitomo Airtruk (seen briefly at the end of 'Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome'):

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/airtruk.jpg)

It does have serious competition from the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl V, though:

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/pterry.jpg)

And for sheer lunacy, there's always the Vedo Villi:

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/vedovilli.jpg)

But in more common ugliness, there's the Potez 75:

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/potez752.jpg)

or the Fleet Shadower:

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/shadow.jpg)

or the P.Z.L.W.S.4 'Zubr':

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/pzl.jpg)

or the Blackburn F3:

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/f3.jpg)

or the Camproni Stipa:

(http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/stipa1.jpg)

or the Il-20 'Gorbun':

(http://hep2.physics.arizona.edu/~savin/ram/il-20-sh2p257-prev.jpg)

There have been immense amounts of ugliness perpetrated on the skies, but only a few really qualify to have gotten into the air only because they were repelled by the ground...

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Duedel on July 22, 2002, 09:48:48 AM

I feel ill, I feel very very ill.

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: cajun on July 22, 2002, 12:02:00 PM

I know it, I know it! But I cant remember the name!!!...
Some transprt or something, saw it on a web site, I think it only had a top speed of around 110 mph!

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: cobra427 on July 22, 2002, 03:12:01 PM

guppy

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Staga on July 22, 2002, 03:42:45 PM

Here's the winner...

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Otto on July 22, 2002, 04:03:40 PM

We must have bought it from the French......

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: udet on July 22, 2002, 05:08:49 PM

There's not such thing as an ugly plane :p

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: GRUNHERZ on July 22, 2002, 06:13:50 PM

Staga please, please take it away- thats just too much after everything.... :D  So ugly!

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: straffo on July 23, 2002, 01:23:42 AM

the answer : http://www.flightjournal.com/gallery/bellanca_aircruiser.asp

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: RRAM on July 23, 2002, 06:35:11 AM

OH! my eyes HurT!!!!!!!!!!!!


:D

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Samm on July 23, 2002, 07:14:52 AM

My eyes !
Before I saw that pic of the camproni stimpa I believed that there was a god !

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: fats on July 23, 2002, 07:40:00 AM

that Campori Stimpa looks like something you get from a kinder egg on Eastern. Just attach wings to the yellow plastic 'egg' and voila!

If Stimpa existed before WWII HTC should put modelling it as highest priority. no question.


// fats

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Hristo on July 23, 2002, 08:30:53 AM

(http://www.seqair.com/Hangar/Zuccoli/Legends/Stipa3.jpg)

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: CyranoAH on July 23, 2002, 09:40:17 AM

Hey, isn't that a baby-jug? :D

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: Shiva on July 23, 2002, 09:51:28 AM

The Caproni Stipa was a bizarre design, built in 1932 to test the thrust effect of a tubular fuselage. The 120 Hp. DH Gipsy III yielded a top speed of 81 Mph, and the lift effect of the tube made the landing speed 42 Mph. A sort of ancestor to modern ducted-fan designs, it faded quickly into a well-deserved and much-appreciated oblivion.

Title: Ugly plane can be US to :)
Post by: CDR Akira on July 23, 2002, 11:05:10 AM

That egg looking plane can not fly I sure of it!

its just so damn ugly