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Here's a photo of the side of one of the aircraft in the Yorkshire Air Museum's collection. I've forgotten the name of the aircraft but just looking at it reminded me why I'm never going to do a post WWII model! :D

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And here's the whole enchilada! So who's going to be the first to build one?

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FAIREY GANNET...and I think I remember seeing one in one of the major modeling publications....Dave Platt comes to mind, but not sure.

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Yep, Platt built and flew one in Top Gun some years back. A very nice model of a VERY ugly airplane!

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That is one UGLY hunk of machinery!!!
Anthony

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When it comes to interesting scale models, I say the UGLIER the BETTER!!! :D

BTW, the Brits built quite a few "interesting monstrosities" in the "jet years" of the 50's-60's. They all seem to be enormous and bulbous! On the other hand the Buckaneer is a fantastic looking aircraft.

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But then I guess there's enough scale detail to keep us WWI guys busy for a while too! :D

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That's not ugly! Its just got to much character.:D

Carl

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Here is a nice project for you guys, it has all the elements of a winner: warbird, taildrager, turbine, :eek: :eek:

[8D]

JG

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You know what they say:

Fly an ugly plane and have a wonderful life.

Uh, wait that's not how that goes.

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Jeff,
I think it is ride and ugly wife and have a wonderful life.:D;):)

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Actually, I think the song goes "make an ugly woman your wife..."

http://lyrictracker.com/show.php?id=NDIxOTk=

But getting back on topic, it's not the ugliness per se of an aircraft that qualities or disqualifies it as an interesting scale challenge but rather the features that would make it worth trying to model. The Fairley Gannet has a number of features that would be a serious challenge to all but the most competent scale modelers (like Platt), for example, the wings that fold in TWO places, the placement of the nose wheel so far forward, the numerous odd curved (and paneled) surfaces, etc.

By comparison the tail-dragging turbine, which while it's probably a nightmare on takeoff and hell on the tarmac, looks like a pretty straightforward build. BTW, this is one of the "ugly British jets" from the 50's and 60's I was talking about. The Vulcan was somehow the culmination of this trend. Some people love it and some people think it's a monstrosity.

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I think the Coleoptere is one of the cooles french jets.

JG

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Jerry Lewis was the test pilot no doubt! ;) Whackety-whack-whack! :D