Butt-ugly airplanes

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and what part of the lanc is square CC??

 

[cheddar cheese]

All of it except the Nose, which is why the nose is hideous...looks like a big old zit

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

there is nothing square about the lanc, there's only a few straight edges...........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Look at the fuselage. Its a bloody square box. Most of the egdes are straight. The tail, same goes for that.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

dude of you look at the lanc nose on you will see that the fusilage is far from a box........

 

[cheddar cheese]

It is...its a box...Doesnt have a nice round fuselage like that of the B-29 or P.108...

 

[reddragon]

I've always thought all flying machines were beautiful but looks like someone has proven me wrong.

 

[cheddar cheese]

With what plane? 8)

 

[trackend]

I think he means Lanc's plank

 

[cheddar cheese]

Ah, that wouldnt surprise me 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

hey the lanc aint a plank.........

although that did make me chucckle, never heard her called that before.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

I think the Lancaster is very much a Love-Hate plane in terms of styling. Im in the Hate camp as you know...I like the plane though 8)

 

[G1Guy]

Here are what some of the other countries around the world were trying to do while Kelly Johnson was designing the P-38. The first is Holland's Fokker D.XXIII - a novel concept for the times, but poorly refined, under-powered, and using a very poor airfoil. The second is Gloster's F.9/37 which was the absolute contemporary of the P-38. It certainly never had the looks of the Lightning.

LOL

Then you are forgetting about the Fokker G.1, which was allready available in 1936. Even before the FW-189.

You just have to admit that the P-38 was a good copy with the techniques learned from the G.1 that was tested by the RAF and other things learned in the years after that. And still it took until the J version to get a succesfull fighter. The first series had a lot of serious problems, where the Fokker G.1 was known as the secondbest allied fighter in 1940 (after the Spitfire) 8)

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

CC i never knew you liked the lanc??

 

[cheddar cheese]

Yeah I do, its a great plane, im just not a fan of the styling.

 

[HealzDevo]

Most of the Early WW2 Bombers look to be built by someone who was at home making boxes. A lot of them seem to look very rectangular and not at all like a cylinder, which is what the B-29 looks more like to me.

 

[HealzDevo]

Maybe the Russian Plane is being hidden, to prevent its own side mistaking it for a target plane. It is ugly enough after all. What pilot wouldn't want to have a go at it?

 

[mosquitoman]

There's nothing wrong with a boxy looking plane. The Whitley was slab-sided but it had that essential quality called style

 

[cheddar cheese]

Again, I like the Whitley but not its styling 8) The Coastal Command markings improve its looks somewhat though.

 

[mosquitoman]

Definitley