Ugliest Aircraft Ever Built

[C-GGGQ]

well when each engine is big enough for a 737 to roll through it (minus wings and tail of course) and produces as much thrust as 3 747 engines my guess is that there is plenty of juice.

[hairdo]

Just for MichaelP



HAHA!! Flying sperm!

You think it looks like a flying sperm there, go look at one with the wings off!

[P 50]

Yes little Planes that can haul cars Suck!!! Yes hauling passgengers are way more exciting!

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[linecrew]

well when each engine is big enough for a 737 to roll through it (minus wings and tail of course) and produces as much thrust as 3 747 engines my guess is that there is plenty of juice.

Mmmm...you have the GE CF6 engines on the Beluga confused with the huge engines that are slung under the wings of the 777 which are the PW4000, Rolls Royce Trent and the GE 90.

The Beluga is basically a modified (and butt ugly versionof the) A300.

[C-GGGQ]

ah, yes I do. I'm used to the 777 with the GE's that is a big damn engine. When its taller than the truck your in its big. When it raises the wing tip so far off the ground it is above you when driving in with the de-icing units boom at full driving height its big. Now that I take a second look at the picture the engines on the beluga are much smaller. However I figured with a plane that big/ heavy that it would have the biggest set of engines you could strap on it.

Fun fact, each 747 engine has more thrust than all 4 engines on a 707, each 777 engine has as much thrust as 3 747 engines. a single 777 engine could fly 3 fully loaded 707's

Its also the only engine at this time that will knock sh!t off your truck at ground idle if you get in the jetwash. Your too close when the fender goes skidding across the ramp

[silentivan]

ah, yes I do. I'm used to the 777 with the GE's that is a big damn engine. When its taller than the truck your in its big. When it raises the wing tip so far off the ground it is above you when driving in with the de-icing units boom at full driving height its big. Now that I take a second look at the picture the engines on the beluga are much smaller. However I figured with a plane that big/ heavy that it would have the biggest set of engines you could strap on it.

Fun fact, each 747 engine has more thrust than all 4 engines on a 707, each 777 engine has as much thrust as 3 747 engines. a single 777 engine could fly 3 fully loaded 707's

Its also the only engine at this time that will knock sh!t off your truck at ground idle if you get in the jetwash. Your too close when the fender goes skidding across the ramp

And the APU on the 777 is equivalent to both engines of a CRJ 705....or at least it sucks back as much jet A per hour as them.

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There's no such thing as an ugly airplane, IMHO. I'm a slut. I'll fly anything with wings.

[Mitch Cronin]

each 777 engine has as much thrust as 3 747 engines.

I don't think that's a fair statement....
I grant you, these 115's are absolute monsters, you could honestly say they're about twice as powerful as the CF6's, but not three times.
The GE90-115's (the most powerful of the bunch) produce 115,000 lbs of thrust each... The last 47's I saw (-400's) had CF6-80's which put out about 62,000 lbs each.... The 47 classics I worked on had either CF6-50's, at about 52,000 lbs. on the -200's, or old JT9's (-7A's? I think?) on the -100's, that might have been as low as 39,000 (I don't remember for sure), which is getting close to a third of 115... But you won't see any of those flying around these days.

[C-GGGQ]

ok i was going off the 52,000lb variant for the 47's and had been told that the 777 made around135-140,000lbs of thrust each, so I'm a bit off. Still at 115,000 lbs thats monstrous.

[Lost in Saigon]

Not built yet, .... but .....

Ayres has been developing the Loadmaster aircraft, a powerful fuel-efficient cargo aircraft powered by a CTP-800 Propulsion System that couples two engines through a single propeller. The Ayres Loadmaster cargo plane is about the size of a DC-3 but can haul up to 8,800 pounds of cargo into small airfields. Loadmaster power is provided by two 1,200 hp LHTEC CTP800 turboshaft engines driving a single, 13-foot diameter Hamilton Standard prop through a combination gearbox manufacturer by Allison Engine Company.

[CSk3RampBOY]

The early beluga

[Brantford Beech Boy]

The early beluga

Isn't that a Super Guppy (modified Boeing Stratocruiser)?

[spinjob]

http://www.sacusa.com/Images/SA_2-37B/sa2.jpg

[therubberjungle]

Here, fixed it for you :

Ayres was developing the Loadmaster aircraft, a powerful fuel-efficient cargo aircraft powered by a CTP-800 Propulsion System that envisioned (Soloy) two engines through a single propeller. The Ayres Loadmaster cargo plane was intended to be about the size of a DC-3 but could haul up to 8,800 pounds of cargo into small airfields. Loadmaster power was supposed to be provided by two 1,200 hp LHTEC CTP800 turboshaft engines driving a single, 13-foot diameter Hamilton Standard prop through a combination gearbox manufacturer by Allison Engine Company.

Ayres died shortly after the planning stage when the company's production end failed to produce anything airworthy. IIRC FedEx had 70 million at stake and pulled out when the in-house problems @ Ayres came to light.

Maybe it would have been a nice VFR airplane but it looked like an ice magnet. Just my opinion.

Cheers.

[iflyforpie]

How about this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witteman-Lewis_XNBL


Or this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor