# Early post WWII aircraft = GORGEOUS!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 7, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166 "2003-04-07T21:22:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mr.Mook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Mook)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/101 "2003-04-10T15:51:05Z")
Best. Thread. Ever.
I spent 3 hours last night viewing every plane posted.
The wife couldn’t believe it. She thought I was watching porn!
Made me feel like a kid again.
The planes I mean, not the porn. 😛
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/102 "2003-04-10T19:07:35Z")
And then there’s this sensible, conservative little number–
[http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/aircraft/flapjack.htm](http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/aircraft/flapjack.htm)
If more than one window opens, go to the one with the photos.
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/103 "2003-04-10T20:26:27Z")
Just goes to show it wasnt only the Germans who made wacky aircraft.
[Here’s a British one](http://cloud.prohosting.com/hud607/uncommon/aircraft/ugly/lysander_01.jpg)
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/104 "2003-04-10T22:30:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Mr. Mook \*
>
> \*\*Best. Thread. Ever.
>
> I spent 3 hours last night viewing every plane posted.
>
> Made me feel like a kid again.
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> \*\*
Thanks!
Of course all the Dopers who love planes are what really made this thread take off.
I was reminicing about my Grandpa and some of the stuff we did together, and I just had to share our love of beautiful airplanes, regardless of what their purpose for being made may be.
So, in a way, all you Dopers are sending a tribute to my Grandpa. Thanks, he would’ve loved it.
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/105 "2003-04-10T22:40:40Z")
I could post here continuously, but we seem to have strayed somewhat…:o
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/106 "2003-04-10T23:13:52Z")
The link you posted for the wacky Brit plane was dead.
I want to see! Whaa!
🙂
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/107 "2003-04-11T00:57:36Z")
Umm, it DID work, now it doesnt.
Try this one:
[http://flatrock.org.nz/images/flying/p12.jpg](http://flatrock.org.nz/images/flying/p12.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/108 "2003-04-11T02:02:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by ElvisL1ves \*
> The Smithsonian will put the Do-335 on display at the new branch museum at Dulles Airport, which opens this December (the 100th anniversary of the Wrights’ first successful powered flight). Most of the aircraft that have been in storage at the Garber facility will go there, including the fully-reassembled Enola Gay.
They were already gearing up for that when I was at Garber, said that the tour there was going to be scaled back as they were getting the Dulles facility ready. I am thrilled I got to see it when I did.
(Am I in my own seperate universe in this thread? C’mon, nobody else likes the Northrop Gamma (you could scale it down and it would be the hood ornament on a 30s Deusenberg) or the Staggerwing Beech?)
If we’ve switched from gorgeous to just plain weird, there ain’t much that beats the [Transavia Airtruk](http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/airtruk.html).
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/109 "2003-04-11T02:06:54Z")
Yup, we’ve DEFINATELY strayed:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/110 "2003-04-11T02:21:59Z")
Anyhoo, I see your Transavia Airtruk, and RAISE you this :
[The infamous Ca60](http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~vitali/images/caproni.gif)
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/111 "2003-04-11T02:25:35Z")
Damn it, another duff link.
Ok, try this: [http://www.pilots-n-planes-ww1.com/Triplane-Madness/Cap-Ca-60.jpg](http://www.pilots-n-planes-ww1.com/Triplane-Madness/Cap-Ca-60.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/112 "2003-04-11T03:46:59Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by ChalkPit \*
> \*\*Umm, it DID work, now it doesnt.
>
> Try this one:
> [http://flatrock.org.nz/images/flying/p12.jpg](http://flatrock.org.nz/images/flying/p12.jpg) \*\*
I opened the link thinking it was gonna be a bolton paul defiant , but yeah that sucker in the link is major artistic liscense on the part of the designer ,lol.
Made me think of Biplane Hurricanes.
Declan
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### Author:  [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/113 "2003-04-11T04:12:00Z")
The Turret Lysander (P12 Delanne) flew very well as it turns out. They were thinking of using it to strafe beach areas at invasion time. I can kinda see what they were thinking but…
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/114 "2003-04-11T04:22:20Z")
Hah! I was thinking to myself, “Self, that looks like a very oddly done up Lysander.”
The regular one is kind of cute, in an “odd is cute” sort of way.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Mook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Mook)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/115 "2003-04-11T04:42:31Z")
Whoa!
Those last few planes looked like they were out of “Crimson Skies,” which actually was a pretty fun flying game.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/116 "2003-04-11T05:15:31Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Mr. Mook \*
> \*\*Whoa!
>
> Those last few planes looked like they were out of “Crimson Skies,” which actually was a pretty fun flying game. \*\*
Very much so.
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### Author:  [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/117 "2003-04-11T05:29:02Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Rick \*
> How about the [Grumman Goose? …](http://www.catalinagoose.homestead.com/files/N22932a_WEB.jpg)
I looked all over for a decent picture of a Grumman Mallard, but couldn’t find one worth posting here. Them’s some cute amphibs!
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/118 "2003-04-11T06:07:19Z")
How about some General Aviation planes?
I always thought the [BD-5](http://www.bd5.com/aanderson2.jpg) ([another shot](http://www.bd5.com/2ndcar.jpg)) was absolutely gorgeous. So was the [BD-10](http://www.jimbede.com/bd10.html). Too bad Bede is such a terrible engineer. He’s got a great eye for design.
The [Swiftfury](http://www.aeronauticpictures.com/jpegs/1E2-10001.lopresti.piper.swiftfury.jpg) is absolutely jaw-dropping, especially in person. I got to sit in one at Sun-N-Fun 1990, and it was just beautiful.
Then there’s the [Rutan Varieze](http://home.usaa.net/~sejii/ve.htm), a truly fantastic airplane.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/119 "2003-04-11T08:21:42Z")
Talking of weird stuff, does anyone have a picture of the “Caspian Sea Monster”, which isn’t strictly speaking an aircraft but an _ekranoplan_ (ground-effect craft)?
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-post-wwii-aircraft-gorgeous/167166/120 "2003-04-11T12:12:39Z")
[I got yer Caspian Sea Monster right here, dude.](http://www.vlewis.net/myimages11/ekranoplan-1x.jpg)
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