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Old February 22nd 06, 01:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default MOST UGLY GLIDER ?

Mike Lindsay wrote:
In article , Martin Gregorie
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Mike Lindsay wrote:

Wasn't the Me 141 a bit like that?

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the Blohm & Voss BV 141
reconnaissance plane?

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/bv141.html

Yes, of course. Blohm und Voss not Messerschmit. Senile dementia strikes
again.

Not the prettiest plane in the Luftwaffe, was it? What were thay thing
of to build an abortion like that?

Don't tell me, committee decision on the Orders of Der Fuhrer.


Probably a major brain aberration amongst the B&V directors because they
had a whole raft of oddball designs, many of them asymmetric. I once saw
a page full of thumbnails....

Sorry, but I don't have a reference for that.


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