How can something (like this plane, which was essentially a civilian variant of a B-50, which was a modified B-29) be so beautiful and ugly at the same time? How can something (like this plane, which was essentially a civilian variant of a B-50, which was a modified B-29) be so beautiful and ugly at the same time?That was my first thought... what an ugly bird.
When I was going to college at Santa Barbara the airport was the base for the “Pregnant Guppy” an interesting modification of this kind of plane.