THE THREAD!!!

[Historiker]

Indeed, nearly as ugly as a pre-WW2 french bomber [:D]

[USSAmerica]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: sprior

The RAFs most expensive plane has taken to the skies! Is it a new fighter, a stealth bomber? No, a re-conditioned 1950's airliner that kep falling out the skies...

4 losses (+1 written off post flight) in 40 years service is a good record. [;)] You won't find many aircraft with a record that good, especially not fast jet fighters/bombers.

[sprior]

I meant the Comet.

[gladiatt]

[:D]

[anarchyintheuk]

I give the Nimrod a +1 in aesthetic quality for looking cool in that hideous Lancaster way (imho the coolest bomber of WW2).

[DuckofTindalos]

Lancaster??? UGLY???

How dare you, Sirrah???

looks around for gauntlet to hit anarchyintheuk about the face and neck with...

[anarchyintheuk]

Hmmm . . . forgot to add looking after cool. My deepest apologies to all Lanc fans. [:D]

[BrucePowers]

Titheyness[:)]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Lancaster??? UGLY???

How dare you, Sirrah???

looks around for gauntlet to hit anarchyintheuk about the face and neck with...

You are quite right sir. Ugly is such an unkind word. May I suggest "Homely"? Not comely? Functional rather than attractive? After all , the British were well into the war when the Lancaster was designed. Beauty could not have been high on the designers list of priorities. The Lancaster was obviously the "less comely step-sister" when compared with stablemates such as the Spitfire and Mosquito. [:D]

[sprior]

Bought this at the IWM last weekend for my son. Guess what I'm going to be doing for the next few weekends?

[Mynok]

The Lanc has at best a 'wrinkly dog' kind of cuteness. Beautiful she is not. Effective, most certainly.

[Mynok]

BTW, I have an annoying problem in one of my CHS games. I have had George's available and building for a couple months now, except of course that no planes get made. The problem seems to be the Adv Nakajima engines are not building, but I cannot figure out why. I have plenty of HI points. The factories are not halted. I did remember something about there being an issue if there aren't as many engine factories as frame factories, so I halted one of the George factories to see if it would build some planes. No dice.

I'm stumped. I was able to research them and advance their arrival by a month. Wondered if maybe that was buggered, but it is now well past their regular arrival date and still no planes. My HI pool keeps rising, but I'd really rather have the planes right now.

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


The Lanc has at best a 'wrinkly dog' kind of cuteness. Beautiful she is not. Effective, most certainly.

She's not a bad looking kite. There's only so much you can do with wings and a huge bomb-bay [:D]

[Mynok]

I've always been secretly convinced the designer was inspired by Churchill's stogies. [:D]

[DuckofTindalos]

Not like the USAAF 4-engined bombers were pretty.

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Bought this at the IWM last weekend for my son. Guess what I'm going to be doing for the next few weekends?

That was the first set of model kits I built with my Grand-Dad many years ago. Back when the Lanc was still painted as Mike-Squared. [:D]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Not like the USAAF 4-engined bombers were pretty.

I'd put either a B-17 or B-29 up against a Lancaster any day. But the Navy PB4Y Privateer beets them both. [:D]

And the B-32 Dominator wasn't bad looking either.

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Not like the USAAF 4-engined bombers were pretty.

Agreed. It was a veritable herd of homelies. [:'(]

[DuckofTindalos]

[:(]