Ugliest Bomber of WWII

[Odin]

Son Schrott[:D]

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

Here is one in action with a Nazi saucer. [;)]

dum dum dum dum dum dum dum FLASH!!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH....KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE (guitar solo)

Yeah, Queen!

But I'm really insulted in seeing that the nazi sauver only has one tripple turret. [;)]

[timtom]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: timtom

Honourable mention to the Blen IV (Bolingbroke this one, but hey...).

...but dang the B-10 hit must'a hit every branch falling out of the ugly tree.

Compared to some, the Blenheim was a beautiful airplane...

Except for the deformed nose greenhouse, I'd say that it has very pleasant lines. [:)]

Certainly. Trim off the nose and you're more or less left with a Beaufort or Beaufighter.

[Durbik]

But I'm really insulted in seeing that the nazi sauver only has one tripple turret.

it's just a top turret, who knows what's underneath

[Panther Bait]

The model fighting the Nazi saucer appears to be different to me.  No triple turrets, but something else on the bottom.  Four Tesla death rays perhaps??  And at least one more in a dorsal mount?

Mike

Also the props seem to be synchronized somehow. The high-speed photography stopped all the props in the same orientation. Amazing technology.

[Anthropoid]

I'm pretty sure those are Surovov Mk XII Rocket boosters.

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Durbik

But I'm really insulted in seeing that the nazi sauver only has one tripple turret.

it's just a top turret, who knows what's underneath

You are right. Maybe it has a lot of missiles and is filled with Wunderwaffen [;)]

[flaggelant]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

ORIGINAL: Mynok
You do have to admire the triple 16" turret on that fake beast though! [:'(]

Now let's not go changing history here Mynok, [:-] that's two x triple 16" turrets, not just one. Note the undercarriage area. [;)][:D][:D]

Jim

They could fire them when making a landing on a short runway... of course this was a bit rough on the people at the airbase, not to mention the folks in the "greenhouse" cockpit area right in front of the guns... [X(] [:'(]

not only runways, i bet it could've served as a airbreak as well
(after which gravity suported enough acceleration to get up to a flying speed again [:D])

[DivePac88]

ORIGINAL: Panther Bait

The model fighting the Nazi saucer appears to be different to me.  No triple turrets, but something else on the bottom.  Four Tesla death rays perhaps??  And at least one more in a dorsal mount?

Mike

Also the props seem to be synchronized somehow. The high-speed photography stopped all the props in the same orientation. Amazing technology.

Here is the model in question on the deck.

[Canoerebel]

All this yacking about "ugly bombers" and nobody has seen fit to follow up on what seems to be the most preposterous claim in this thread? That Eleanor Roosevelt was a "knockout" when she was younger? Here she is in 1943:

[Canoerebel]

And here she is in 1902

[DivePac88]

Eleanor Roosevelt was a very special lady; she basically single-handedly saved FDR from himself when he was paralyzed by polio. It is her, with the help of others that then encouraged FDR after his rehabilitation to re-enter politics. So while I know this is only light-hearted banter, perhaps we should be showing some more respect.

[Anthropoid]

There seem to be several different versions of this K-7 RDF (Russo-Dread-Fighter) floating around in here. I see one with Suvorov rocket boosters, one with one Mogilev 16" plane-mount air cannons, another with two of these Mogilev gun turrets . . . didn't look closely but it looks like there might even be two different configurations of the rocket-booster version: one WITH extra 6" booster-assisted thruster guns, and the other (the one assaulting the Nazi sauzer) without. Can one of you expert technical guys please sort this whole thing out, its all becoming quite a muddle.
 
Now as to Eleanor in her latter years: now I understand that quote attributed to her "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. Beautiful old people are works of art." Looks like she wasn't actually so artistically gifted after all.