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05-12-2004, 01:21 PM
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#76 | | Master of Ewes
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Country:  | ah, not just a double, but a huge one..................
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05-12-2004, 01:35 PM
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| And it looks ugly in both.
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05-12-2004, 01:39 PM
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#78 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | the engine looks tiny....................
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05-12-2004, 01:57 PM
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Country: | Russians have some very good equipment, too bad for them the government hasn't got the money to fund it. And I don't think you can compare them to the Nazi designers of World War 2, who have to one of the biggest achievers in history.
First man made item in space: V-2 rocket, designer Von Braun.
First man on the moon: sent by Saturn 5, the Apollo 11 mission, Saturn 5 design team headed by Von Braun.
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05-12-2004, 01:58 PM
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| The early MiGs were dog ugly too.
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05-12-2004, 02:21 PM
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Country: | The Mig-3 wasn't that bad and the Mig-15 had the same character as any other 50s plane. The F-86 Sabre was dog ugly too.
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05-12-2004, 02:22 PM
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| The MiG-3 was horrible. And take-offs and landings must have been nearly impossible with that much nose in front of the cockpit.
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05-12-2004, 02:24 PM
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#83 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | the sabre wasn't ugly.................
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05-12-2004, 02:27 PM
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| I don't think the Sabre or the MiG-15 were ugly.
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05-12-2004, 02:40 PM
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Country: | I don't like the looks of any of the 50s aircraft, maybe ugly was a too strong of a word.
The Mig-15 had to have that nose, the nose on the Ta183 was too short to accomadate the Rolls Royce Nene engine.
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05-12-2004, 02:42 PM
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| Now the first of the Russian jets were UGLY! The MiG-15 was probably the first decent looking jet they had.
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05-12-2004, 02:45 PM
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Country: | And they didn't even design it, the Germans did and they put a British engine in it.
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05-13-2004, 11:09 AM
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05-13-2004, 02:56 PM
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Country: | Yes, it is funny how all that gets forgotten with propaganda... 
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05-14-2004, 02:10 PM
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#90 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | like the mustang being called a truely great all american plane, it was designed be brits with a brittish engine..............
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