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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 10:23:07 PM   
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French ironclad Carnot. It hurts my eyes when I look at it. And this isn't the worst looking one.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/02/17/57704/?edg-c=1






It's a submarine, isn't it?


No, it is a battleship.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/17/2022 3:54:00 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/18/2022 2:45:14 PM   
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Personally I've always had a soft spot for the SM.79. I think she stays just the right side of 'full of character'.




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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/18/2022 3:39:35 PM   
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French ironclad Carnot. It hurts my eyes when I look at it. And this isn't the worst looking one.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/02/17/57704/?edg-c=1








Drachinifel, the You Tube historical videographer, created a rather long video on the history of these French "hotel" pre-dreadnaughts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ygXLnRAm-A

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/18/2022 5:26:52 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/18/2022 9:28:18 PM   
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If we are going Italian!

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/18/2022 9:37:23 PM   
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Nice pic


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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 4:29:00 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 4:39:51 PM   
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Sometimes it's difficult to know where 'Character' crosses into ugly.

Personally I've always had a soft spot for the SM.79. I think she stays just the right side of 'full of character'.


Indeed. You said it.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 4:41:12 PM   
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If we are going Italian!


Very nice. Thank you.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 4:41:44 PM   
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Sticking with things Italian, there is the Piaggio bomber. No full of character, just ugly thanks to the nose.


Hear, hear.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 4:51:56 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 5:04:05 PM   
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B-17



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Personally I'm not a fan of this particular colour scheme, but I love the aircraft. Rugged, purposeful, yet really quite pretty.


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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 5:36:14 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 6:11:26 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 6:21:31 PM   
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Lancaster


That is beauty, and character, combined into one mean, big, machine.

Edit: And the colour scheme is stunningly beautiful.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/19/2022 6:36:14 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 8:05:48 AM   
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Here is a plane full of character.




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True dat We all love Tante Ju


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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 8:13:18 AM   
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Oh yeah baby The tail design probably means the B-17 is higher in the beauty ranking, but a mother of all aircraft all the same.


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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 8:14:23 AM   
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Not what I call beautiful, but rather impossibly pretty


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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 9:18:41 AM   
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Oh yeah baby The tail design probably means the B-17 is higher in the beauty ranking, but a mother of all aircraft all the same.


Funny. The tail design is the clincher for me. The Lancaster is the standard for a good looking heavy WWII bomber that I compare the others against. And, so far, no one (that I recall) has been close.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 9:23:28 AM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 9:28:11 AM   
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And when we speak of full of character...



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Mmmmm The flying porcupine or the Catalina? Which has more character?





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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 9:36:33 AM   
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And when we speak of full of character...



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Mmmmm The flying porcupine or the Catalina? Which has more character?




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Or maybe an He-115 is where u at?





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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 12:48:19 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 4:53:17 PM   
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Captured on her 12th patrol.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 10:23:28 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 11:24:00 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 11:33:17 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/20/2022 11:51:44 PM   
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Delivering P-40s to land bases by carrier. If a B-25 can do it why not P-40s?
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=p-40+taking+off+from+carrier&view=detail&mid=33B049599E62800919BC33B049599E62800919BC&FORM=VIRE


That was also done with escort carriers for Operation Torch.

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