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Ugliest airplanes
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:15 pm
by captain_john
Check out these...
http://www.popularaviation.com/UgliestPlane.asp?Page=1
Especially the crashed Cub photos where they fly in the parts!
UNBELIEVABLE!
CJ
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:36 pm
by Heli-Wrench
Whats with the people putting all the extra engines on to those poor Tri-pacers?
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:56 pm
by captain_john
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
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:01 pm
by hngrflyr
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.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:05 pm
by svanarts
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!
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:19 pm
by svanarts
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:32 am
by jim_geo
I agree with svanarts and was hoping someone else would say it first. There just ain't sech a thing as an ugly aeroplane.