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And I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel-shaped-italian-airplane-called-stipa-caproni-designed-in-t
by taylorius 6mo ago
And I shall raise you the Stipa Caproni
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel-shaped-italian-airplane-called-stipa-caproni-designed-in-the-1930s/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/05/13/the-strange-barrel...
- EdwardDiego 6mo agoI think this one is winning the inverse beauty contest. It looks like it really wants to scoop up a large amount of plankton mid-cruise.
- jodrellblank 6mo agoSee also the Caproni Transaero, which isn't totally ugly but is messy in a "maybe more wings is better? some pushing engines at the back?" kind of way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60
- cf100clunk 6mo ago> pushing engines at the back Weird aircraft with a pusher engine? Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender, right this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender (and check out the list of similar aircraft)
- EdwardDiego 6mo agoI had a bloody die-cast toy of that as a kid for some reason, I thought it was just a fake plane they'd invented to justify a toy!