The "PIG UGLIEST"....

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

AND .... the prize for (what surely has to be) the "PIG UGLIEST" aircraft currently in service goes to .... "BOEING" .... for its "B747 LCF" ....















I actually saw this sucker parked up at MIA .... early last year I think it was.


It does tend makes this thing look "positively b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l" .... by comparison





Mark C
AKL/NZ

[walterleo]

Hi Mark:

There is a serious competitor for the proposed titel still available:

AIRBUS BELUGA





No match for this "beauty" is the graceful AN-225:





Kind regards

Walter

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Howard Hughes would say he would beat all of your planes with his more ugly Goose plane.

[Peter Liddell - HJG Admin]

Really... to me the PL-12 Airtruk is by far the ugliest thing to be made to fly...

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

Walter .... have the BELUGA and MYRIA been "properly" represented as FS freeware ?

Goose plane

"H-4 HERCULES" .... thank you .... since "GOOSE", or "SPRUCE GOOSE", was merely a coined nickname that (unfortunately) stuck ....



www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227304/Spruce-Goose-Howard-Hughes-On-65th-anniversary-brief-flight-history-monumental-folly.html

Easy to mock people for what's later perceived as their folly (and HUGHES rightfully, and wrongfully, did suffer, and even invite, some of that mockery upon himself) .... but .... it/the H-4 was still "an impresive feat of aviation engineering for its time" .... and doesn't look too bad in comparison to other period aircraft designs particularly among marine aircraft types ....and which are a whole other design in themselves. Having only briefly flown "once" .... it's capabilities (be they positive or negative) never got a chance to be assessed due to the abrupt ending of WW2.

And favoring marine aviation aircraft subject myself .... aboard which I have "a lot" of experience (as a PAX) .... I quite like it .... to the extent of my even buying ACADEMY's 1/200 scale kit of the HERCULES H-4.

Howard Hughes would say he would beat all of your planes

No .... he'd probably say something like .... "I've just about had enough of this non-sense" .... then bid everyone farewell, get up, and walk right out of the room .... and get lost I his own work Quite a nicely staged act perpetrated by him at the end of (which actually terminated) the 1947 senate hearings which really sought to expose him as a wartime profiteer at the expense of the US government.

Like me .... he didn't take any crap from anyone

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[walterleo]

Hi Mark:

At Avsim.su there are FS2002, FSX and X-plane simulations available and also a Beluga simulation. Never tried any of them.

Here the link:

www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?search=AN-225&sopt_mode=or&in_folder=0&sopt_title=1&sopt_desc=1&sopt_author=1&sopt_fname=1&sopt_comms=1&ignore_folder=32%2C88%2C89%2C91%2C92%2C93%2C96%2C97%2C98%2C99%2C102%2C103%2C104%2C112&page=3

Kind regards

Walter

P.S.:

Its a funny side aspect: The high-wing designs look better than the low wingers if you inflate them for carrying oversized loads.
The H-4 Sprouce Goose realy didnt fly at all, she did only a jump in ground effect. The idea was too early for the engines available thence.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

Thanks Walter

For one day when I get some FS time for myself .... and which is a bloody rarity

Mark C
AKL/NZ