Ugly Aircraft

[red750]

Shapely, eh...? :confused:

SHAPLEY, not SHAPELY, ;)

 

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[red750]

PT - does that stand for 'poking tongue?'

 

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[siznaudin]

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Cheers, Willie.

Yep .. that's how you scare the opposition: poke your tongue out at 'em.

 

 

[siznaudin]

SHAPLEY, not SHAPELY, ;)

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Well it's most certainly not, is it!

 

 

[willedoo]

I guess we can't let the USA off the hook, either.

 

This comical looking jet is the Vought XF8U-3 Crusader 3, developed as a successor to the F8U Crusader, and competitor to the F4 Phantom. Five were built and three flown before losing out to the F4.

 

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The ventral fins enabled speeds of Mach2+ and rotated to horizontal for landing and take off.

 

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Cheers, Willie.

 

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[Scotty 1]

This Avid Private Explorer was passing through Taree today. Canadian couple touring through Auz

 

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[TAA Student Pilot]

Saw this fly over here (South western Vic) a few days ago, wuz goen VERY slow. Must have a cruise speed of about 75 knots by the way it droned past. :D Mr Wilson originally built a twin engine one of these, was even bigger.

 

 

[red750]

Take the wings off that Avid Private Explorer and you could tow it behind the car. Does it have a bed near that low window at the back? Does it have a stove and sink?

 

 

[Scotty 1]

Just found this.

 

http://www.oshkosh365.org/saarchive/eaa_articles/1998_06_05.pdf

 

The one today wasn't as flash but it did have the double bed in the back.

 

Cheers Scotty

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

My God, that Avid is a cross between a Shorts 360 and a Jabiru! :eek:

 

 

[siznaudin]

Couldn't get that Oshkosh link to work - dunno why.

 

Today's dumb question: did they somehow fly that Avid what-not from Canada or did they do the sensible thing & have it freighted here?:confused:

 

 

[Scotty 1]

Came out in a 40' container and was put together at Bankstown. Cruises at 100 MPH with 300 ponnies up front so to get it here and then around Auz and back home again it would not be a cheap exercise, but what a way to go.

 

Cheers Scotty

 

 

[Scotty 1]

See if this works

 

Cheers Scotty

 

Avid Private Exporer.pdf

 

Avid Private Exporer.pdf

 

Avid Private Exporer.pdf

[siznaudin]

Thanks Scotty - much appreciated.

 

What an incredible aircraft! Like a furshluginer airborne lounge room/bedroom combined!

 

Now for something equally built to a purpose and not to aesthetics...

 

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[TAA Student Pilot]

A 70 feet wingspan, pure jet bi-plane AG aircraft with two hoppers, thinking outside the box for sure. As an indication of how Eastern block aircraft needed maintenance there's a spot behind the pilot to seat an engineer. PZL Belphegor M-15

 

 

[TAA Student Pilot]

Came out in a 40' container and was put together at Bankstown. Cruises at 100 MPH with 300 ponnies up front so to get it here and then around Auz and back home again it would not be a cheap exercise, but what a way to go.Cheers Scotty

Typical of the yanks with quoted performance figures, no way in the world this thing was doing 90 knots when it flew over. It had a fairly high power setting by the sound of it and it took ages from first sound/sight to out of sight.

 

 

[willedoo]

Now for something equally built to a purpose and not to aesthetics...

I was wondering where that photo was taken & tracked it down to the Museum of Polish Aviation in Krakow. Another museum for the bucket list.

Cheers, Willie.

 

 

[siznaudin]

My next offering... dunno what it is & it's not posted here as a "whatizzit" - however, someone will no doubt work it out.

 

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[red750]

Hey, Geoff. The answer is in your post on an 'ugly planes' thread in Dec 2009. Same pic.

 

http://www.theaussieaviator.net/threads/what-were-they-smokin-1.15877/

 

 

[siznaudin]

Hey, Geoff. The answer is in your post on an 'ugly planes' thread in Dec 2009. Same pic.http://www.theaussieaviator.net/threads/what-were-they-smokin-1.15877/

Thanks Pete I'll put its name to the file image I have. Early onset Altzheimers, perhaps?

 

 

[mnewbery]

[ATTACH=full]1592[/ATTACH] (not ugly just weird)

 

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[ATTACH=full]1595[/ATTACH] ugly and incomplete. Points for identifying the constellation of dots near the tail wheel

 

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[willedoo]

A couple of photos of the Aeronca C-3. The front end looks a bit like a white pointer shark.

 

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Cheers, Willie.

 

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[willedoo]

Another French contender, the Amiot 143.

 

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Cheers, Willie.

 

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[siznaudin]

A couple of photos of the Aeronca C-3.Cheers, Willie.

The C-3 ... one of my treasured wish-objects: extravagantly, it has twice as many cylinders as our veteran car, yet has retained a certain degree of aural sophistication...

 

Please note - the second clip is labelled as a "high speed" pass ... :)

 

 

[willedoo]

it has twice as many cylinders as our veteran car, yet has retained a certain degree of aural sophistication...

Sounds a bit like a TE-20 Massey Ferguson.

This Chinese home built looks a bit like a smaller version of the Flying Bathtub if you stretch the imagination a little.

 

 

Cheers, Willie.