Ugliest airplanes

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:15 pm

Check out these...

http://www.popularaviation.com/UgliestPlane.asp?Page=1

Especially the crashed Cub photos where they fly in the parts!

UNBELIEVABLE!

CJ

Heli-Wrench · Post by **Heli-Wrench** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:36 pm

Whats with the people putting all the extra engines on to those poor Tri-pacers?

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:56 pm

It puts the "TRI" in TriPacer!

All joking aside, wasn't there some marginally performing high wing twin that had a miserable single engine rate of climb that was designed exclusively as a initial trainer? It looked like that "tri" without the engine on the nose.

CJ

hngrflyr · Post by **hngrflyr** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:01 pm

In the late 50's or early 60's, Champion Aircraft built a twin engine version of the tri geared Champ. It was not a pretty airplane. I doubt seriously if it had a "rate of climb" on one engine. Several early twins could not hold altitude on one engine, but a 50 to 1 rate of decent seemed acceptable.

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:05 pm

hngrflyr wrote:In the late 50's or early 60's, Champion Aircraft built a twin engine version of the tri geared Champ. It was not a pretty airplane. I doubt seriously if it had a "rate of climb" on one engine. Several early twins could not hold altitude on one engine, but a 50 to 1 rate of decent seemed acceptable.

There's still one of those bad boys flying!

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:19 pm

Ugly?! I just took a look at the site, they've got pictures of some very interesting airplanes! There's only one or two that I would truly call UGLY! The rest are very interesting.

jim_geo · Post by **jim_geo** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:32 am

I agree with svanarts and was hoping someone else would say it first. There just ain't sech a thing as an ugly aeroplane.