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Sticking with things Italian, there is the Piaggio bomber. No full of character, just ugly thanks to the nose.

Hear, hear.

B-17

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B-17

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Personally I'm not a fan of this particular colour scheme, but I love the aircraft. Rugged, purposeful, yet really quite pretty.

Here is a plane full of character.

Lancaster

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Lancaster

That is beauty, and character, combined into one mean, big, machine. [&o] [:)]

Edit: And the colour scheme is stunningly beautiful.

Mossie aka Wooden Wonder

ORIGINAL: Orm

Here is a plane full of character.

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True dat [:)] We all love Tante Ju [&o]

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Lancaster

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Oh yeah baby [:)] The tail design probably means the B-17 is higher in the beauty ranking, but a mother of all aircraft all the same.

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Mossie aka Wooden Wonder

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Not what I call beautiful, but rather impossibly pretty

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Lancaster

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Oh yeah baby [:)] The tail design probably means the B-17 is higher in the beauty ranking, but a mother of all aircraft all the same.

Funny. The tail design is the clincher for me. The Lancaster is the standard for a good looking heavy WWII bomber that I compare the others against. And, so far, no one (that I recall) has been close.

And when we speak of full of character...

ORIGINAL: Orm

And when we speak of full of character...

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Mmmmm The flying porcupine or the Catalina? Which has more character? [:)]

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And when we speak of full of character...

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Mmmmm The flying porcupine or the Catalina? Which has more character? [:)]

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Or maybe an He-115 is where u at?

Speaking of floatplanes..... The A6M2N

U-505 a Type IXC.



Only one of four U-Boats in existence as museum ships.

The most heavily damaged U-Boat to make it to port.

Became the butt of jokes thanks to her four in a row botched patrols.

Her captain shot himself in the control room while under depth charge attack on her 10th patrol.

Captured on her 12th patrol.

One of my favorite planes!

Delivering P-40s to land bases by carrier. If a B-25 can do it why not P-40s? [;)]
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=p- ... &FORM=VIRE

Speaking of Ugly, I present to you the ersatz tank destroyer 7,5 cm Pak 40/4 auf RSO (Sf).

ORIGINAL: Lobster

Delivering P-40s to land bases by carrier. If a B-25 can do it why not P-40s? [;)]
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=p- ... &FORM=VIRE

That was also done with escort carriers for Operation Torch.