Sometimes you just gulp and say OK that is one ugly...

[Suffolk Lad]

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/la/m15/m15-3.jpg


Whilst perusing about the web I found this image. It has to be one of the more unfortunate designs. I am not saying it hit every twig as it fell down the ugly tree but it must have come close.

[HappyPass]

...you should pay a visit to the Silhouette Challenge forum, plenty of strange stuff there! :p

[superq7]

Suffolk what is it ?

[HappyPass]

A cr*p duster... :E
PZL M-15 Belphegor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor)

[superq7]

Happy thanks very much :ok:

[Suffolk Lad]

It is a jet powered biplane crop duster and is indeed the PZL M-15 Belphegor apparently it was fearsomely noisy and pretty slow. Since PZL built some fine looking aeroplanes I always think that this is a sort of Polish joke on the Russians.

[The SSK]

Maybe it was designed to scare the bugs off the crops.

[Suffolk Lad]

File:Edgley Optica Sywell 1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edgley_Optica_Sywell_1.jpg)

I always thought this was quite bug like

[joy ride]

It certainly looks a monstrosity, but I presume a crop dusting plane has no need to be pretty, quiet or fast!

[treadigraph]

Yup...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/ZK-BPVa.jpg

[Suffolk Lad]

Mad max anyone? Of course that is the P11 Bennett Airtruk not the Transavia P12 from the film

[joy ride]

I think one of the most GULP-worthy aircraft of all was the Piasecki Helistat, from about 1 min 27 secs in this video:

Piaceski PA97 Helistat - YouTube

[Noah Zark.]

These hideous creations certainly back up the old adage - "If it looks right, etc. etc."

[Suffolk Lad]

Iron Maiden Singer Bruce Dickinson Funds Longest Aircraft in The World (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iron-maiden-singer-bruce-dickinson-funds-longest-aircraft-world-1438403)

Well an airship is being tested again. This one has a bit of heavy metal in its make up but it isn't that pretty.

[joy ride]

That was discussed recently, but I did not know that Dickenson was involved!

http://www.pprune.org/spectators-balcony-spotters-corner/535007-worlds-longest-aircraft.html

[Suffolk Lad]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni another in my why would you list!

A slightly different quirkiness but still in the wierd and wonderful bracket would be this Germany’s DFW T28 Floh (Flea)

[susier]

I'm afraid I can't think of any of these as ugly.


I'm new to all this but recently discovered FR24 and have been leaping from the computer to the garden every five minutes with the children (and sometimes without, ahem) to see what is going overhead.


These things are absolutely bloody beautiful aren't they?


I've only flown twice (once there, once back) and hated every minute of it, and wouldn't want to be a passenger again but blimey I could watch them all day from the ground.


Can someone reassure me that I'm not going bonkers? : )

[Barling Magna]

No, you're not going bonkers. Just starting a lifelong obsession. You'll never be able to fail to look up when an aircraft passes over....

[susier]

Thank you, I feel better for hearing that.


We're househunting and I'm now worried about finding somewhere not on a flight path.


I remember visits to my Grandparents' house near Southampton airport back in the 70s and 80s, and the constant low flying a/c so close you could read the writing on the fuselage.


Perhaps that has something to do with it.


Anyway...nice to meet you all.

[SpringHeeledJack]

We're househunting and I'm now worried about finding somewhere not on a flight path.

With a mindset like that you should have little problem finding a very large property with a massive garden for a very good price in many areas of the country that are presently seen as 'blighted' by the noise pollution of overflying aircraft. I love aircraft but prefer to keep them at a distance, but then I feel the same about most manmade noise sources :) As regarding watching flying things, it is a curse that is not easily cured, a possible solution would be to train your eyes to operate independently of each other which is apparently what Apache helicopter pilots are trained to do :8



SHJ

[chevvron]

'read the writing on the fuselage'
What did it say 'lift here' or 'no handling'?