Feeling Threatened

**Baxter** · 07-24-2016 14:21

Do not get me wrong, I love the Gotha G1 but I would not want to pilot one. I mean just look at this ...

If you did not get on with the gunners, well .......

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**csadn** · 07-24-2016 17:59

That is, without fear of contradiction, The Ugliest Airplane Ever Built.

**gully_raker** · 07-24-2016 20:38

Originally Posted by csadn

That is, without fear of contradiction, The Ugliest Airplane Ever Built.

Mostly got to agree with you Chris but some of the French ones just pre WW2 come really close!

**Baxter** · 07-25-2016 00:39

Next yoy Anglophiles will tell me the Fairey Barrucuda is just lovely I suppose hmmm ☺

**Naharaht** · 07-25-2016 02:13

You would be o.k., Gary. They knew that if they shot the pilot, they would die too. Also their positions were higher than the pilot's.

**Flying Helmut** · 07-25-2016 05:22

Originally Posted by Naharaht

Also their positions were higher than the pilot's.

Easier for "getting above their station" as mere gunners!

**csadn** · 07-25-2016 14:59

Originally Posted by Baxter

Next yoy Anglophiles will tell me the Fairey Barrucuda is just lovely I suppose hmmm ☺

It's not a brilliant design, but it does not approach "JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST, WHO THE HELL DESIGNED THAT THING" levels of Ugly.

**Diamondback** · 07-25-2016 16:33

Originally Posted by Baxter

Next yoy Anglophiles will tell me the Fairey Barrucuda is just lovely I suppose hmmm ☺

I'm no Anglophile, but we've all seen worse than the Barracuda...I'd call it "utilitarian," much like how both the A-10 and F-117 are in their own ways finely tuned to Form Follows Function for their specific roles.

Loral Specter (unbuilt stealth fighter, some may remember it from the 1980s Monogram "F-19" model kit) they ain't, though...

**Diamondback** · 07-25-2016 16:34

Originally Posted by csadn

It's not a brilliant design, but it does not approach "JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST, WHO THE HELL DESIGNED THAT THING" levels of Ugly.

Thanks for the laugh, French.

**Naharaht** · 07-25-2016 17:43

Originally Posted by Flying Helmut

Easier for "getting above their station" as mere gunners!

They were not all 'mere gunners'. The way the Germans arranged their crews, one of the observers would be the plane's commander and would probably outrank the pilot.

**csadn** · 07-26-2016 15:56

Originally Posted by Diamondback

I'm no Anglophile, but we've all seen worse than the Barracuda...

I'm just wondering why they didn't go all the way, and make it a high-wing, rather than the shoulder-wing design. (It isn't as tho' the track on the gear could be any worse....)

**Diamondback** · 07-26-2016 16:04

Originally Posted by csadn

I'm just wondering why they didn't go all the way, and make it a high-wing, rather than the shoulder-wing design. (It isn't as tho' the track on the gear could be any worse....)

How's the wing height above ground compare to an A-10? Hog's gear and wing height were selected specifically to make life as easy on the poor ordies as possible, so maybe it was something similar if the above-deck height was similar.