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Re: Ugliest civil conversion
Posted by Ryan Keough on Sat Mar 06, 2004 09:09:36 PM
In reply top Re: Ugliest civil conversion posted by Ryan Keough on Sat Mar 06, 2004 09:29:43 AM
Here's one of those lovely C-45s:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/479555/M/
Ryan Keough
: I have to say that most of the clipped-wing Stearman spray
: ers were pretty ugly... of course a sprayer is not attract
: ive anyhow.
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: I always disliked the long nose on the civil B-23 Dragons
: too, but at the same time I liked many of the On-Mark Inva
: ders... the plane could wear it well. They looked much bet
: ter than the civil mod B-25s with the faired noses (I reca
: ll an oil co. having one like it registered N01L)
:
: However, I agree that the frankensteined C-45c coming from
: Volpar... like the ones that flew with Connie Kalitta Air
: , were by far and away the worst. Tri-gear, long nose, lon
: ger fuselage, turboprops... all with the old twin tails. L
: ooked like the guy who did the plastic surgery on Michael
: Jackson was lead engineer at that conversion facility!
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: More to come as I drag up my pictures... great category!
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: Ryan Keough
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: : I've been workingon the C-45 registry and a picture of t
: he
: : atrocious Turboliner conversion got me thinking. What i
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: : the ugliest civil conversion of a military aircraft? Opi
: ni
: : ons?
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: : Scott WRG Editor