What is the ugliest plane?

9 of the Ugliest Airplanes Ever Made
  • Kalinin K-7. Look at that thing. ...
  • Linke-Hoffman R.I. We know what you're thinking. ...
  • PL-11 Airtruck. There are things that are so ugly or strange that they're endearing. ...
  • PZL-104 Wilga. ...
  • ALA-40 Thermoplane. ...
  • Canadian Vickers Velos. ...
  • SNECMA Coleoptere. ...
  • McDonnell XF-85 Goblin.
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What is the ugliest fighter jet?

8 Fighter Jets Too Ugly To Intimidate Anyone
  • 8 McDonnell XF-85 Goblin.
  • 7 Vought F7U Cutlass.
  • 6 Boeing X-32.
  • 5 Yakolev Yak-36 Freehand.
  • 4 Yakolev Yak-15 Feather.
  • 3 Saunders-Roe SR. A/1.
  • 2 Hunting H. 126.
  • 1 SNECMA C450 Coleoptere.
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What is the strangest plane?

Top 10 Weirdest Planes Ever Built (That Actually Flew)
  • The Spruce Goose Airplane.
  • The Pregnant Guppy Airplane.
  • Northrop Tacit Blue Airplane.
  • Kalinin K-7 Airplane.
  • The Flying Pancake Airplane.
  • The Dreamlifter Airplane.
  • The Super Guppy Airplane.
  • The Airbus Beluga Airplane.
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What is the most silent plane?

The quietest commercial aircraft in service today are likely the Airbus A220 and Embraer E2. These would be followed by the A320neo and 737MAX. While you might be able to tell the noise level difference between these two groups, it is unlikely you could tell the difference within the group without looking.
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What is the most beautiful airplane?

Top 25 Most Beautiful Airplanes
  1. Beechcraft Staggerwing. aviation top airplane. AeroTime Extra.
  2. Concorde.
  3. Piper J-3 Cub.
  4. Lockheed Constellation.
  5. de Havilland Dragon Rapide.
  6. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
  7. North American P-51D Mustang.
  8. Cessna Model 177 Cardinal.
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The Ugliest/Weirdest Planes OF ALL TIME



What is the coolest plane ever?

Best Airplanes of All Time
  • Wright Brothers' Flyer 1.
  • DC-3.
  • SR-71 Blackbird.
  • ME-262.
  • Harrier.
  • B-52 Stratofortress.
  • F-117A Nighthawk.
  • P-51 Mustang.
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What is the most famous airplane?

Here are 15 of the most famous aircraft in history.
  • 1) Lockheed Model 10 Electra. Flown By: Amelia Earhart. ...
  • 2) Wright Flyer. Flown By: The Wright Brothers. ...
  • 3) Air Force One. Flown By: The U.S. Government. ...
  • 4) Blériot XI. Flown By: Louis Blériot. ...
  • 5) Spirit of St. Louis. ...
  • 6) The Hindenberg. ...
  • 7) The Voyager. ...
  • 8) Fokker Dr1 Dreidecker.
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What is the loudest seat on a plane?

When deciding either window or aisle seat, the window is found to be the loudest on the plane. While aisle seats are quieter, do note there's also a higher chance that other passengers from the inner seats might interrupt you if they need to go to the washroom.
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Where is a plane the loudest?

Various studies cited in the studies indicate that sitting in front the wings and engines is the quietest place in flight, with behind the wing and engines being the loudest.
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What is the loudest passenger plane?

The loudest aircraft ever flown was likely the Republic XF-84H "Thunderscreech", a turboprop-driven variant of the US Air Force's F-84 Thunderjet fighter.
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What is the rarest aircraft?

We look at some of the rarest airplanes in the world and, along the way, discover the remarkable stories behind them.
  • Bleriot XI.
  • Boeing B-29.
  • Mitsubishi Zero.
  • Howard 500.
  • Cirrus VK30.
  • Lockheed PV-20 Harpoon.
  • Antonov An-225 Mriya.
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What's the most expensive airplane?

For comparison, the world's most expensive jet, Air Force One, comes at $660million. A modified Airbus A380 was reportedly made for Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal al-Saud for Rs $600million. Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov's Airbus A340-300 costs between $350-500 million dollars.
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Is the Beluga plane real?

Yes – it's an actual airplane painted with the face of a beluga whale. Last month, Airbus' BelugaXL completed its first flight over southwest France. It's not just its awesome paint job that makes this aircraft stand out, but its size.
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What kind of plane was in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?

The Transavia PL-12 Airtruk is a single-engine agricultural aircraft designed and built by the Transavia Corporation in Australia. The Airtruk is a shoulder-wing strut braced sesquiplane of all-metal construction, with the cockpit mounted above a tractor engine and short pod fuselage with rear door.
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What speed does a commercial jet land?

Landing Speed By Aircraft Type

Commercial Airliner: A commercial airliner, like a Boeing 747, lands at an average speed of approximately 150 knots (172mph).
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Where is it quietest on a plane?

The quietest seats on a plane

Seat closer to the front of the plane are slightly quieter than seats over the wing or in the back, depending on where the engines are located (on multi-engine planes, this under the wings).
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Where is the safest place to sit on a plane?

When looking at what seats gave you the best chance of surviving a crash, the middle seats in the plane's rear came out the best with a 28% fatality rate. The worst seats were on either side of the aisle in the middle of the aircraft, with a 44% fatality rate.
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Are new planes quieter?

New planes are getting quieter over time, GAO report finds

That's about as loud as a subway train. The GAO also found that 96% percent of large airplanes could meet the more stringent Stage 4 standard of about 85 decibels — similar to the sound of city traffic.
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Is the back of the plane the safest?

The study concluded that passengers who sit in the back rows “are 40% more likely to survive a crash” than those in the front. Statistics provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) support this finding.
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Is it safer to be in the front or back of a plane?

A middle seat at the back of a plane was found to be the safest, with a 28 per cent mortality rate - compared to the worst, an aisle seat in the middle of the cabin, which has a mortality rate of 44 per cent.
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Are planes louder in the back?

Photo Illustration: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal. Besides skinny seats, slim lavatories and overstuffed overhead bins, here's another reason to loathe the back of the airplane: It's noisier than the front. The noise inside an airplane is a choice airlines and airplane manufacturers make.
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What is longest non stop flight?

The longest nonstop commercial flight in the world is scheduled at 18 hours and 50 minutes from Singapore (SIN) to New York City (JFK) serviced by Singapore Airlines.
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What is the easiest plane to fly?

The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is widely considered the easiest plane to fly. While many factors come into play that makes the Cessna 172 so easy to fly, the most influential features are its high wing configuration, powerful engine, spacious & comfortable cockpit, and intuitive and forgiving controls.
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Do planes have names?

Yup, that's right, airplanes do have names and they're often quite quirky! As a usual flyer, you might refer to the aircraft you flew in by a number, such as Airbus A380 or Boeing 737, but only a few of you would know if you flew in Spruce Moose or Dream Start.
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What is the most loved plane?

1. Cessna 172. While the 737 and A320 are the world's top passenger jetliners, the plucky little four-seater Cessna 172 is the most successful civil aircraft in history, with more than 45,000 of them reported to have been built.
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