We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:06:21 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification The Commissar linked in to that post with a Show Trial - and manages to get in a plug for his other website while nominating the Curtiss SBC2 Helldiver, aka, Son-of-a-BitCh, 2nd Class. illbill suggested the SLUFF (Short Little Ugly Fat Fella (well, not fella, but we try to be PG13 at the Castle)), also known as the Corsair II, which, oddly enough, was the plane the Armorer would have wanted to fly, along with the A-10, were the Armorer not blind from a flight standards aspect. Tregonsee correctly identified the CA-20 (the muli-wing monstrosity) and it's eventual fate as... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:48:10 -0600 Feel free to visit our website on the history of the Dornier Wal flying boat. The book in english will come soon,now. Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards, M.Michiel van der Mey President Dornier Wal Documentation Center http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-9454 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-9454 Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:57:21 -0600 Paul's Ugliest Aircraft Shrine. Have a look at, say, the Blackburn Blackburn. One that he missed - because Miles Aircraft made some of the prettiest planes in the sky - was the M35 Libellula. Then there's the indescribable Blohm-und-Voss Bv141 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7345 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7345 Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:52:06 -0600 w/regards to more air-fen than tank-fen: Well, I can't help it, I work at Wright-Patt. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7311 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7311 Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:47:35 -0600 Vickers Wellesley. Too slow (me, and the airplane....) And while it has an "ugly duckling" feel to it, the Douglas TBD Devastator has a history of courage associated with it that overrides any fault of the aircraft itself. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7298 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7298 Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:59:09 -0600 It's Countess Maria Fede Caproni-Armani, and last I heard, she's still alive, and very pleasant company, too, if you get a good introduction. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7297 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7297 Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:54:48 -0600 Oops again! Somebody slap me, please. I'll say in my defense, that that woman leaning against the wing of that airplane does resemble the Caproni heiress to an amazing degree. That airplane, I must say after having clicked on the link, is obviously a recent replica. Jeebus! It ain't bad enough that I confused the image of one airplane with another, I've also confused the image of one woman with that of another, a far more serious bad deed. In my defense I must say that the woman leaning against the leading edge of the wing, there, looks very like the Caproni heiress in her picture on the Website I can no longer find. Help! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7296 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7296 Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:06:45 -0600 Oh, yeah, she's a descendent of the Caproni family, maintains an interesting museum with some rare old original airplanes, might even be a Contessa, a very cool lady any way you look at her, wish I could remember her URL! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7295 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/10/followup_on_the_ugly_plane_contest.html#comment-7295 Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:36:44 -0600