SUU23
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The size of the aircraft one would wonder what a couple of tons would matter, you can't beat a couple of guns.
Most Ugly Aircraft
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The main problem with tail turrets ISTR is less actual weight but more c of g issues, which is why the Lancaster/Halifax/Stirling carried the ammunition mid fuselage and fed it along tracks to the turret.
This is the ‘Ugly’ thread - this, and the last few posts, are rather attractive.
Stovepipe
LE
The project with the PPsh machine guns under the Tu-4? it was found, to no-one's surprise, that the installation was far too heavy, vibrated by a tremendous amount, filled the aircraft with fumes, cascaded empties everywhere and the fired round was too light to be effective unless the aircraft got very low over the target, which was not a good idea and unless the pilot aligned the aircraft perfectly, the spray of rounds did not hit the target adequately,if at all.
mush_dad
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That's a serious exhaust on that engine
Almost Subaruish.
I thought of Hurricanes in the rutting season.
I wouldn't be too thrilled about that huge heat source guiding various bits of IR nastiness in the direction of my Goolies.
Hard to believe it’s the same aircraft !
exspy
LE
And what was the intended purpose for this creation?
Cloth bomber
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should have renamed it from sturgeon to Plec (or corridora).
Bless. The poor thing got too high and melted it's poor nose...
CrashTestDummy
MIA
Icarus Walt.
Beauty and the Beast
We've had the Gannet before, but it turns out that it was also acoustically so ugly that one ( XL482 ) was sold to Hamilton Standard so that they could conduct measurements on the noise properties of contra-props.
It became N1350X for these tests and is now in the Pima Air & Space Museum.
Looks like we sent them one of the RN Palouste air-starter pods instead of using the USN equivalent:
We've had the Gannet before, but it turns out that it was also acoustically so ugly that one ( XL482 ) was sold to Hamilton Standard so that they could conduct measurements on the noise properties of contra-props.
It became N1350X for these tests and is now in the Pima Air & Space Museum.
Looks like we sent them one of the RN Palouste air-starter pods instead of using the USN equivalent:
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