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Sometimes you just gulp and say OK that is one ugly...
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.
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.
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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.
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dgley Optica Sywell 1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I always thought this was quite bug like
dgley Optica Sywell 1.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaI always thought this was quite bug like
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Iron Maiden Singer Bruce Dickinson Funds Longest Aircraft in The World
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.
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.
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That was discussed recently, but I did not know that Dickenson was involved!
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...-aircraft.html
http://www.pprune.org/spectators-bal...-aircraft.html
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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)
A slightly different quirkiness but still in the wierd and wonderful bracket would be this Germany’s DFW T28 Floh (Flea)
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? : )
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? : )
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.
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.
We're househunting and I'm now worried about finding somewhere not on a flight path.
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 
SHJ
