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02-18-2005, 10:58 PM
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#46 | | "Shooter"
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Country:  | The landing gear alone are enough to put this one in the category! Bleck!
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02-19-2005, 07:23 AM
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#47 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | it's not that bad looking............
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02-19-2005, 11:25 AM
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#48 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country:  | It aint pretty, but the swept-forward wings are cool 
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02-19-2005, 06:57 PM
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#49 | | Senior Member
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Country: | Heres some more ugly German planes:
Fieseler Fi 167: 
F.F.G. Berlin 9:  
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02-19-2005, 07:06 PM
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#50 | | Senior Member
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Country: | As ugly as that Berlin 9 is, its actually pretty interesting... http://www.luft46.com/prototyp/berlin9.html
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02-20-2005, 04:42 AM
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Country: | What were those designers thinking 
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02-20-2005, 05:21 AM
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#52 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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02-20-2005, 10:26 AM
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#53 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Ugh, the Berlin 9 looks like what you would get after turning a 9 year old loose with the drafting board!
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02-20-2005, 10:48 AM
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#54 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | Perhaps thats why its called the Berlin 9, because at the time it was designed all of Germany's top designers were dead so they had to use 9 year olds, and Berlin was their only city left 
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02-20-2005, 11:05 AM
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#55 | | "Shooter"
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02-21-2005, 10:25 AM
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#56 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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02-21-2005, 10:26 AM
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02-21-2005, 12:42 PM
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#58 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | looks like an upside down paper aeroplane............
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02-21-2005, 03:33 PM
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| And here's the windtunnel model of it...  | |
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02-21-2005, 03:36 PM
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Country: | Dont let Walmart get hold of it, theyll try and sell it off as a Kitchen unit!
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