Silly aviation pictures.

[Flightrite]

For many years timber was the preferred building medium for many forms of transport, that concept still applies here😂

[red750]

I have no idea what the structure under the nos of this aircraft is all about, but the basic aircraft is a Short Sturgeon. Qualifies as one of the ugliest.

 

[facthunter]

Built for a Purpose. How it Looks ,doesn't Matter. Nev

[IBob]

I'd say it was the perfect loo with a view???

[facthunter]

Illegal . Nev

[onetrack]

It's a Shorts Sturgeon S.B.3, a submarine hunter aircraft. The "Elephant Man" nose contained the sub-hunting radar, and room for two radar operators.

 

Sadly, the Shorts Sturgeon started off a quite a nice-looking Naval torpedo bomber and then a Naval recce/attack aircraft. But Shorts were big losers in the aircraft design race because it was very late in WW2, the military requested designs and proposals changed monthly, and Shorts struggled to win any contracts.

 

They won an order for 30 of the original nice-looking Sturgeons, then the order was cancelled as the War ended.

 

 

“I am not an animal…”; The Short S.B.3 - Forgotten Aircraft - Military Matters

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An...unusual looking...design, the S.B.3 was what can happen when you keep messing with a design to try to meet changing requirements.

 

[facthunter]

The Radar has to Point where It's "looking" and be enclosed for protection.  Nev

[red750]

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