Just about any French interwar plane will fall into this category:
Just about any French interwar plane will fall into this category:The Poles tried hard, too:The post war Short Seamew:And some say the F-4 Phantom was ugly! What were these folks thinking? The WWI aircraft had better streamlining.
And some say the F-4 Phantom was ugly! What were these folks thinking? The WWI aircraft had better streamlining.
Another for me is the Bellanca C-27:Of course it went into sexy overdrive with the floats added...
Quote from: Frank3k on February 27, 2016, 06:11:19 AMJust about any French interwar plane will fall into this category:You may know that I am a shameful French man... And here is the French Mustang FP-51B (of mine, alas)...
From the pretty Lightning, (I dream/fear that) Farman designed the F-238B, A, C Beautning (Beaut' stands for Beauty = Beauté in French), yes!
This is a Blackburn Blackburn:and this is a Blackburn Blackburn on floats:
An RAF entry, the AVRO Aldershot:
The Model 17 iterations with fixed gear did look rather pugnacious, so I suppose some could say it was ugly :
and the proposed pursuit could be considered odd, by some:
Quote from: jcf on March 04, 2016, 01:25:39 AMand the proposed pursuit could be considered odd, by some:That looks like GeeBee air racer had a threesome with an I-153 and Westland Lysander... and the offspring is strangely alluring.
Quote from: Tophe on March 03, 2016, 01:23:28 AMFrom the pretty Lightning, (I dream/fear that) Farman designed the F-238B, A, C Beautning (Beaut' stands for Beauty = Beauté in French), yes!But if you put a rear facing engine in the center pod of C, it would truly be "une bete beauté"
Tophe, thanks - I can see the first one cruising over Tahiti in the 1930s as an airliner.