fastmongrel
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I know this has been done before but I have come across some new to me aircraft that surely only flew because they beat the air into submission. To start things off I give you the Armstrong-Whitworth A.W.29.
Planes only a mother could love
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fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
With all the grace and elegance of a factory chimney the Blackburn Blackburn
And not only did Blackburn love the Blackburn - they made a BIGGER version - the Cubaroo!
Just to show that de Havilland had their off days, the D.H 29 Doncaster:
Bristol Brandon, which looks reasonably comely in comparison:
GregP
Major
Pretty ugly stuff there, Aozora. I'm at somewhat of a loss to figure out how they could have mounted that giant antenna any better, but it IS ugly, isn't it?
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fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
And not only did Blackburn love the Blackburn - they made a BIGGER version - the Cubaroo!
Jeepers thats an insult to the air. That was definitely designed by someone who preffered walking to flying.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
Njaco
The Pop-Tart Whisperer
Gawd, I'd hate to see the mudder!
Procrastintor
Senior Airman
I am about to upload the anti-sexy, it's the opposite of a P-40
Procrastintor
Senior Airman
Procrastintor
Senior Airman
Looks like a butterfly after a long battle with drugs. Then made into creepy robot form.
stug3
Staff Sergeant
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yulzari
Tech Sergeant
The General Aircraft G.A.L.38 Fleet Shadower was even uglier than the Airspeed GA39 Fleet Shadower and the GA38 was bad enough.
Shortround6
Major General
Some French contenders
Notice the engines in tandem pairs??
only made to the "H"s of French Aviation and not used any from before 1918.
stug3
Staff Sergeant
If this thing is a seaplane I would hope the seats in those pontoons had some heavy duty shock absorbers.
T Bolt
Colonel
go wash you mouth, young man. That's blasphemy
I always thought it's a very nice aircraft. Admittedly ot would have been even prettier with the intended DB601's installed.
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fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
Marcel do you have any projected performance figures for the production DXXIII. I believe it did over 300mph with only 2 x 500hp engines, 2 x 1,000hp RR or DB engines and it would have been a real flyer. Thats if they could have got the cooling for the rear engine sorted pusher engines seem to have been troublesome.
Of course:
For the Walter Sagitta engines: 535 km/h at 4100 m, so that would be about 332km/h.
With RR Kestrel XV it could do 565 km/h at 4425m, but I don't believe they tested that.
Fokker calculated a speed of over 600km/h with either the DB or Merlin engines. But they were never fitted because of the embargo.
They had cooling problems allright. More so because the Walters were air cooled inlines.
For the Walter Sagitta engines: 535 km/h at 4100 m, so that would be about 332km/h.
With RR Kestrel XV it could do 565 km/h at 4425m, but I don't believe they tested that.
Fokker calculated a speed of over 600km/h with either the DB or Merlin engines. But they were never fitted because of the embargo.
They had cooling problems allright. More so because the Walters were air cooled inlines.
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