Can you identify this?

[Thorlifter]

First person to identify this wins a large bag of room temperature nothing. And can you say what was unique about it?

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Waterman Flying Wing...

It was very fugly!!!

 

[bobbysocks]

looks like it ought to be in a buster keaton or joe e brown movie....

 

[meatloaf109]

It probably didn't fly very well?

 

[Thorlifter]

Figures Joe would get it! haha. Congratulations. You win a large bag full of room temperature nothing.

I found it named as a Waterman Whatsit. It was designed as an aerial Model-T, something everyone could own and land on the street.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

That's ugly!

 

[Thorlifter]

Considering the concept for this was thought of by Waldo Waterman in 1909, it's a pretty advanced design. Granted the prototype wasn't ready until 1932 so I'm sure modifications and changes were made....but still. Pretty forward thinking, IMO.

However, it certainly isn't a Fokker Dr.I or a Spitfire as far as beauty goes..