April 4, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I’d like to see pics of aircraft that have had weird-looking modifications applied to them. I know this is a thread on modern military aviation, but I wouldn’t mind seeing some older ones as well, such as the Westland Lysander beach-strafer modification with essentially two wings, end-plate rudders, and a rear turret, or the Hawker Hurricane biplane with a jettisonable top wing with integral fuel tanks. Another example I can think of is some of the grotesque ASW Avenger modifications that had so many strange radars, antennae, and MAD booms. One more modern one is the Chilean Boeing 707 fitted with the IAI Phalcon radar. Let’s see how many strange mutations we can come up with.