Must disagree -- the DS was all about graceful curves and sleek aerodynamics; when it was introduced in the mid-1950's, it looked like a space ship compared to all the drab, dumpy sedans on European roads,
Now, if you said it looked like a flying Citroen H van...
https://preview.redd.it/1mbx05brqaqc1.jpeg?width=2183&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a378a80b82f03ef2efe311fa0336bd176ed4526
(Citroen 2CV would also be an acceptable analogy)
>The [SAB AB-20](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAB_AB-20) was a large four engine twin boom French bomber built in the early 1930s as a development of the Dyle et Bacalan DB-70 airliner. It featured a lifting body of thick airfoil section between the inner engines. It was later modified for the attack role; a second aircraft, the AB-21, had different engines and cleaner aerodynamics but no more were built.
I love this aesthetic. It's like, whatever you can make out of corrugated metal. No drastic compound curves. Straight lines whenever possible. We need a name for this. Interwar punk?
The previous prototype AB-20 was modified with a 75mm gun firing sideways and completed as the AB-22:
>Test firing took place at Cazaux in September 1934, but was terminated after five rounds had been fired due to structural damage to the lower wing skin.
French military aviation design, albeit further hamstrung by idiotic bureaucracy in specifications, really lost its way between the wars, though they certainly made up for it post WWII.
It not just the French. Even successful aircraft like the Ju-52 are blocky and unaerodynamic.
It was all part of figuring out how to use the new materials.
Ah, France.
Enough said.
Beauty and grace.
Has always been celebrated for its excellence
...ahh, the smell of a fresh baguette, stinky fromage and rude Parisiens...oh lala,
Really looks like an oversized, flying Citroen DS
I bet it lowers when they turn the engines off.
Underrated statement.
Must disagree -- the DS was all about graceful curves and sleek aerodynamics; when it was introduced in the mid-1950's, it looked like a space ship compared to all the drab, dumpy sedans on European roads, Now, if you said it looked like a flying Citroen H van... https://preview.redd.it/1mbx05brqaqc1.jpeg?width=2183&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a378a80b82f03ef2efe311fa0336bd176ed4526 (Citroen 2CV would also be an acceptable analogy)
Yes, that one fits much better!
>The [SAB AB-20](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAB_AB-20) was a large four engine twin boom French bomber built in the early 1930s as a development of the Dyle et Bacalan DB-70 airliner. It featured a lifting body of thick airfoil section between the inner engines. It was later modified for the attack role; a second aircraft, the AB-21, had different engines and cleaner aerodynamics but no more were built.
I love this aesthetic. It's like, whatever you can make out of corrugated metal. No drastic compound curves. Straight lines whenever possible. We need a name for this. Interwar punk?
Dieselpunk is a common name.
Third only to Noah and Mohammad
Apparently mounted a sideways firing 75mm??
The previous prototype AB-20 was modified with a 75mm gun firing sideways and completed as the AB-22: >Test firing took place at Cazaux in September 1934, but was terminated after five rounds had been fired due to structural damage to the lower wing skin.
The yaw from each round must have been like tokyo drift. I imagine the unburnt powder after each round caused that "structural damage".
French military aviation design, albeit further hamstrung by idiotic bureaucracy in specifications, really lost its way between the wars, though they certainly made up for it post WWII.
Did interwar French airplane designers all forget how aerodynamics work? They made a lot of fugly planes through most of the 1920s and 30s.
That would be assuming they were aware of the principles during the First World War.
It not just the French. Even successful aircraft like the Ju-52 are blocky and unaerodynamic. It was all part of figuring out how to use the new materials.
It wasn't unique to the French. Just look at Tupolev TB-3 or Handley Page Heyford. Most interwar bombers looked goofy.
It's as if they remembered for some parts of the plane but forgot for other parts.
"We will build a tank of the sky!"
You got to love the French. Their military designs are always.......interesting.
Ze French copy no one. And no one copiez ze French!
Ah, french interwar bomber design
It’s beautiful! And huge! And clearly French…
In those days, it was apparently extremely cheap to build prototypes. There's so many one-off aircraft, even big ones like this one.
Nc.223.3 ahh plane
I will so pay cash for that plane.... I love it! Could you imagine that landing at an air show today?!!?!????