The Ugly Ducklings
Plane Tales
English - July 04, 2022 13:36 - 19 minutes - 31.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsAviation Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Whilst we are discussing quaint idioms, many of us trust that old American adage, “If it looks good, it’ll fly good” attributed to both Neil Armstrong and Bill Lear and is something that all pilots understand. There is something about a fine looking aircraft that makes it appear trustworthy and gives one confidence that it will perform well. Sadly, I know of one company, however, who seem to have looked at their aircraft through bottle bottom glasses… or perhaps they never got the memo.
The Dunne D5
The Type 184
The Cardington Gasbag
The Shorts S38
The Singapore
The Shorts Empire flying boat
The Sunderland
The COW gun
The Sunderland's internal bomb racks
The Sunderland's rest facilities
The Bombay
The long legged Stirling
The unlikely looking Seamew
Hurel-Dubois Miles 106 Caravan
The Shorts SC 7 Skyvan
The Shorts SD360
The coolest Skyvan ever... Pink!
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Marinha do Brasil, Short Bros of Cardington, the RAF, Shorts, the Library of Congress, SADSM, George Jackman, the Royal Navy, Adrian Pingstone, Tomás Del Coro and those images orphaned or in the Public Domain.
Whilst we are discussing quaint idioms, many of us trust that old American adage, “If it looks good, it’ll fly good” attributed to both Neil Armstrong and Bill Lear and is something that all pilots understand. There is something about a fine looking aircraft that makes it appear trustworthy and gives one confidence that it will perform well. Sadly, I know of one company, however, who seem to have looked at their aircraft through bottle bottom glasses… or perhaps they never got the memo.
The Dunne D5
The Type 184
The Cardington Gasbag
The Shorts S38
The Singapore
The Shorts Empire flying boat
The Sunderland
The COW gun
The Sunderland’s internal bomb racks
The Sunderland’s rest facilities
The Bombay
The long legged Stirling
The unlikely looking Seamew
Hurel-Dubois Miles 106 Caravan
The Shorts SC 7 Skyvan
The Shorts SD360
The coolest Skyvan ever… Pink!
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Marinha do Brasil, Short Bros of Cardington, the RAF, Shorts, the Library of Congress, SADSM, George Jackman, the Royal Navy, Adrian Pingstone, Tomás Del Coro and those images orphaned or in the Public Domain.