Whilst we are discussing quaint idioms, many of us trust that old American adage, “If it looks good, it’ll fly good” attributed to both Neil Armstrong and Bill Lear and is something that all pilots understand. There is something about a fine looking aircraft that makes it appear trustworthy and gives one confidence that it will perform well. Sadly, I know of one company, however, who seem to have looked at their aircraft through bottle bottom glasses… or perhaps they never got the memo. The Dunne D5   The Type 184 The Cardington Gasbag   The Shorts S38   The Singapore   The Shorts Empire flying boat   The Sunderland   The COW gun   The Sunderland's internal bomb racks   The Sunderland's rest facilities   The Bombay   The long legged Stirling   The unlikely looking Seamew   Hurel-Dubois Miles 106 Caravan   The Shorts SC 7 Skyvan   The Shorts SD360   The coolest Skyvan ever... Pink!     Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Marinha do Brasil, Short Bros of Cardington, the RAF, Shorts, the Library of Congress, SADSM, George Jackman, the Royal Navy, Adrian Pingstone, Tomás Del Coro and those images orphaned or in the Public Domain.

Whilst we are discussing quaint idioms, many of us trust that old American adage, “If it looks good, it’ll fly good” attributed to both Neil Armstrong and Bill Lear and is something that all pilots understand. There is something about a fine looking aircraft that makes it appear trustworthy and gives one confidence that it will perform well. Sadly, I know of one company, however, who seem to have looked at their aircraft through bottle bottom glasses… or perhaps they never got the memo. The Dunne D5   The Type 184 The Cardington Gasbag   The Shorts S38   The Singapore   The Shorts Empire flying boat   The Sunderland   The COW gun   The Sunderland's internal bomb racks   The Sunderland's rest facilities   The Bombay   The long legged Stirling   The unlikely looking Seamew   Hurel-Dubois Miles 106 Caravan   The Shorts SC 7 Skyvan   The Shorts SD360   The coolest Skyvan ever... Pink!     Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Marinha do Brasil, Short Bros of Cardington, the RAF, Shorts, the Library of Congress, SADSM, George Jackman, the Royal Navy, Adrian Pingstone, Tomás Del Coro and those images orphaned or in the Public Domain.