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I'll raise you the Blackburn B-54 [0] and the Fairey Gannet [1]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54
by EdwardDiego 7mo ago
I'll raise you the Blackburn B-54 [0] and the Fairey Gannet [1].
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn_B-54
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet
- fwipsy 7mo agoThe fairy gannet looks like two smaller airplanes clipping into each other. It looks like an AI from ten years ago generated an image of an airplane. It looks like they hired engineers who got their degrees in Kerbal Space Program and then paid them by the hour. "Even if it's broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." The Belphegor is still uglier though.
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoNow that I googled more pictures of it, I agree, the one in Wikipedia is obviously it's most flattering angle, looks almost... Rutanesque. This photo though, I see what you mean. https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3envi/the_pzl_m15_belphegor_noisy_demon_was_a_large/ https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3envi/the_pzl_m1...
- NegativeLatency 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet_AEW.3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Gannet_AEW.3 The AEW version looks ok
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoYeah they improved it on the AEW, looks far less bubonic.
- pinewurst 7mo agoNot the Nimrod AEW though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_Nimrod_AEW3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_Nimrod_AEW3
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoYeah, bless the Nimrod AEW, WORST RHINOPLASTY EVER.
- taylorius 7mo agoAnd I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel-shaped-italian-airplane-called-stipa-caproni-designed-in-the-1930s/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel...
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoI think this one is winning the inverse beauty contest. It looks like it really wants to scoop up a large amount of plankton mid-cruise.
- jodrellblank 7mo agoSee also the Caproni Transaero, which isn't totally ugly but is messy in a "maybe more wings is better? some pushing engines at the back?" kind of way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
- cf100clunk 7mo ago> pushing engines at the back Weird aircraft with a pusher engine? Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, right this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender (and check out the list of similar aircraft)
- EdwardDiego 7mo agoI had a bloody die-cast toy of that as a kid for some reason, I thought it was just a fake plane they'd invented to justify a toy!
- jodrellblank 7mo agoFairey who also came up with the Rotodyne, a cool part-plane, part-helipcoter, part-autogyro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJOm1V77Xg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJOm1V77Xg - video by 'Mustard'