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6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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How could I forget that 501. Such a beauty

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6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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I can beat that: Polikarpov I-17. 

 

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Very sleek. Much like the pre-war racing machines (macchi, supermarine). Polikarpovs designs did have some nice lines.

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One more sleek machine...Kawasaki Ki-78.

 

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6./ZG26_5tuka
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The beauty that never was to acchieve the fame of it's legendary rival...

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Personally I like the look of the He 100 much better.

 

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6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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The Amounts of Alcohol I'd have to drink to find the 112 even the least bit beautiful or appealing would probably kill me. 


I like my planes like my women, asymmetric. 

 

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Indeed women resembling that also need some love

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The BV 141 looks like someone gave up halfway through building it.

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6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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gave up halfway through
Just like most Dates I go on.  
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The Amounts of Alcohol I'd have to drink to find the 112 even the least bit beautiful or appealing would probably kill me. 

I like my planes like my women, asymmetric. 

 

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Want.

PatrickAWlson
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The BV 141 looks like someone gave up halfway through building it.

 

I get what they are doing with it.  They want one engine.  They want great frontal visibility.  They came up with that.  Just wondering if a pusher design wouldn't have been much simpler.  

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I get what they are doing with it. They want one engine. They want great frontal visibility. They came up with that. Just wondering if a pusher design wouldn't have been much simpler.

As can be seen from the cabin design, they wanted great front- and rearward visibility, so a pusher design wasn’t really an option.

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not a good camo but nice looking to me

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6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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Avatar: Fw190

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Sir, are you a Meme, Stereotype, Parody or just Unoriginal? 

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Avatar: Fw190

Posts: P-51D

 

Sir, are you a Meme, Stereotype, Parody or just Unoriginal?

 

He's not got the hang of it has he?

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The little known Gee Bee R3. Sadly only a few prototypes ever built. You can just see the muzzle of the 155 mm Motorkanone sticking out: Guaranteed one shot kills even on Spruce Goose.

 

 

 

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P-47 Thunderbolt

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xvii-Dietrich
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Re: BV-141

 

 

I get what they are doing with it.  They want one engine.  They want great frontal visibility.  They came up with that.  Just wondering if a pusher design wouldn't have been much simpler.  

 

 

The visibility is only part of the design concept. The asymmetry is a consequence of optimising balance of a powerful engine on a light airframe and the resulting asymmetric blade tendency (P-factor). Weight balance and wing area ensured there was no roll tendency. The vertical stabiliser is offset more for tail-gunner visibility, rather than balance. Both low-speed and high-speed performance was stable.

 

The BV-141 not the first asymmetric aircraft. Fokker built some slightly asymmetric aircraft in the 20s. However the BV-141 was pretty extreme.

 

In the end, the LW went for the FW-189 as their main tactical-recon plane.

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May I add the Heinkel Lerche, it looks like a rocket!

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May I add the Heinkel Lerche, it looks like a rocket!

The Lerche was by no reasonable definition a WW2 aircraft. Or an aircraft at all. It was a fantasy project the Germans were entirely incapable of producing, like so many of their late-war wonderweapons...

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The Lerche was by no reasonable definition a WW2 aircraft. Or an aircraft at all. It was a fantasy project the Germans were entirely incapable of producing, like so many of their late-war wonderweapons...

 

Does the Bf109 Z count? It is two planes in one!

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The Stuka is great, isn´t it?

6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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Piper TG-8: A Cub without Engine.

 

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The Fat Girl for me  :)

I mean how many of you have not rolled a fat girl in your life :biggrin:

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I give you the Fix It Again Tony G55 Centauro ... it not a Lamborghini but it close 

 

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The little known Gee Bee R3. Sadly only a few prototypes ever built. You can just see the muzzle of the 155 mm Motorkanone sticking out: Guaranteed one shot kills even on Spruce Goose.

It probably does need droptanks to extend its range beyond the pattern of its home base.

 

As for the Spruce Goose, all you need is to grow a line of trees and it cannot pass anymore.

I give you the Fix It Again Tony G55 Centauro ... it not a Lamborghini but it close 

In the sense that you could have three Doras for for one such beauty, it is very much a Lambo if the Dora is Golf R32. ;)

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I like my planes like my women, asymmetric. 

 

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Its a product of its time, with everybody sitting on the far right-wing.  ;)

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6./ZG26_Custard
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Its a product of its time, with everybody sitting on the far right-wing. 
  It’s a good job it’s not being built in today’s climate by academic think tanks and being reported on by MSN because they would get it wrong too and just have them sitting on the far left  ;)

 

Anyway, the Lizzie needs some lovin' too!

 

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150GCT_Veltro
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I give you the Fix It Again Tony G55 Centauro ... it not a Lamborghini but it close 

 

 

This one, the real beast: the German version improved all around, FIAT G-56 DB603.

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6./ZG26_Custard
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This one, the real beast: the German version improved all around, FIAT G-56 DB603.

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No.  That is the Barbara Streisand of aviation.  Look away.

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6./ZG26_Custard
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[edited] I could throw this monster.

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SYN_Haashashin
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6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann
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Thanks for clearing that up. 

 

Well, if you want Beauty, look no further than Breguet and Potez. 

 

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