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		mardifoufs on Jan 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Trans... Or most inter war french bombers. God, they were ugly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAB_AB-20#/media/File:A.B.20.p... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farman_F.220

psunavy03 on Jan 9, 2024 [–]

It's like the old joke about how you ID aircraft from the 50s to the 70s:

- If it's ugly, it's British.

- If it's weird, it's French.

- If it's ugly AND weird, it's Russian.

arethuza on Jan 10, 2024 | [–]

That might explain why the TSR-2 was cancelled - too beautiful!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2

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