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Beautiful!
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Goose, Mallard, and the Albatross. Especially with those big, beautiful radials on top. The turbine conversions might have better power, utility, and reliability, but they got that by selling their looks, IMHO.
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Without question!
Cheers mate! 
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Yes.
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Gorgeous.
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certainly seen worse… 
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Ah. A group of ugly is called a pugly.
I may have just made that up 
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I think the older planes have their grace though, this sure does have it.
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“It was love at first flight. An ugly duckling on the ground, but in the air a swift.”
— SAAB Test Pilot Robert A ”Bob” Moore
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I vote for beautiful… It aint sexy, but I’d take it for a fly 
I see your Gannet and give you:
And that is probably its best angle.
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I see your SB6 and raise you a Blackburn Beverly
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I’m all in:
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Hold my prop…
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I give you the Blackburn sparrow, anti airship fighter
it was to be armed with a 2 pounder recoilless rifle
on a side point Blackburn did make some god awful aircraft
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Damn. That is like holding a full house and counting the chips already. Then you have to pull four aces out of the bag 
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