Most Ugly Aircraft

[SUU23]

Skyraider is fairly quick and heavily armoured. Sturmovik is a tank, albeit somewhat dated. Modern battlefields are nothing like Vietnam and WW2 Russian front.

Low, slow target with a single engine is in all kinds of trouble these days. Bronco has two engines so you can pick somewhere nicer to crash should you need to GTFO of Dodge. Not so with AHRLAC/Bronco II.

Proper tank

 

[Cloth bomber]

Proper tank
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Isn’t that the one that lost out to the frog foot?

 

[Lardbeast]

Frogfoot not too bad either. A bit agricultural but quite good at what they do.

Ah, I see @Cloth bomber has the same idea.

 

[SUU23]

Isn’t that the one that lost out to the frog foot?

Yup. Il 102
I prefer the look of this one as I prefer the look of the YF-23

 

[robinrocket111]

Proper tank
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The cockpit area of a Viper from Battlestar Gallactia mixed with the wings and engines from a Meteor..

 

[SUU23]

Frogfoot not too bad either. A bit agricultural but quite good at what they do.

Ah, I see @Cloth bomber has the same idea.

Frogfoot didn't have these:

 

[SUU23]

Pass me the bucket

 

[robinrocket111]

Pass me the bucket
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Is that the Prototype ground attack turbojet Mustang?

 

[SUU23]

Is that the Prototype ground attack turbojet Mustang?

yup 1963 cavalier

 

[SUU23]

Is that the Prototype ground attack turbojet Mustang?

Turboprop

 

[robinrocket111]

Turboprop

That’s what I ment.........DOH!
I can imagine being a fair bit cleaner be a fair bit quicker , having got rid of that big ol’ air scoop.

 

[Waldeck]

No idea of the make of plane, but there are a lot of them around at Airshows in the States. This one was taken at the Atlantic City airshow from the top of Trump Tower.

 

[W21A]

It's a Yak 50 variant. A true rivet counter will be along shortly.

 

[Skunkmiester]

There was a Yak 52 display team at Flying Legends about 7-8 years ago. Absolutely brilliant, best aerobatic display team I have seen. And that includes the Red arrows.

 

[maguire]

Frogfoot didn't have these:
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I wounder how effective that would have been in practice? seeing as how it must add a couple in tons in weight between the installation itself and the structure needed to support it.

 

[Waldeck]

These 4 were taken at The Flying "W". A small local airport near me (South New Jersey). They have hangars there, will soon be going out to practice for the up coming shows.

 

[Lardbeast]

There was a Yak 52 display team at Flying Legends about 7-8 years ago. Absolutely brilliant, best aerobatic display team I have seen. And that includes the Red arrows.

Piston engines of that size have a quicker response than jets, making them very agile.

Frogfoot didn't have these:
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Haemorrhoids?

 

[Soluton Architect]

Let's ask the USAF what they planned to use as the upper-tier COIN aircraft to supplement the Bronco ( in this 1964 snippet still considered a Navy / Marines concept ):

The AT-28E, a single-engined turboprop...

And when time came for the A-X program ( which created the A-10 ), the number and type of engines wasn't even specified in Stage 1.

 

[Lardbeast]

260 kts in the cruise, around 300kts max for the piston type is hardly crawling. It was also built to carry a load and well armoured. Still no fun but better than a lightly armoured slower type with fewer things to throw back at those being nasty to you.

As said before, the battlefield has changed since the 1970s.

 

[SUU23]

That’s what I ment.........DOH!
I can imagine being a fair bit cleaner be a fair bit quicker , having got rid of that big ol’ air scoop.

Piper Enforcer