UGLIEST Aircraft Built and Flown
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Already mentionned the DB-10 as the ultimate horror, page 2 of this thread. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/ugliest-aircraft-built-and-flown.22403/page-2
At least the AB-20 vaguely looks like a contemporary bomber, like the TB-3 or some british bombers. It has a "normal" shape. Except for the windows in the wing "profile".
Look ma ! A flying bathtub !
At least the AB-20 vaguely looks like a contemporary bomber, like the TB-3 or some british bombers. It has a "normal" shape. Except for the windows in the wing "profile".
Look ma ! A flying bathtub !
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Only marginally worse than the Martin 123 prototype... (I love both, incidentally!)Already mentionned the DB-10 as the ultimate horror, page 2 of this thread. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/ugliest-aircraft-built-and-flown.22403/page-2
At least the AB-20 vaguely looks like a contemporary bomber, like the TB-3 or some british bombers. It has a "normal" shape. Except for the windows in the wing "profile".
Look ma ! A flying bathtub !
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The Buccaneer most certainly was a yorkie of an aircraft - a complete antithesis of the graceful and frail elegance of Spitfire or de Havilland Hornet. However, like you, I cannot call it ugly. It has a workmanlike charm to it.
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"Aesthetically challenged" doesn't even begin to describe the Pemberton-Billing P.B.31E "Night Hawk" and its predecessor, the P.B.29 "Zeppelin Destroyer"...
Imagine this: the company became Supermarine soon after that!
Imagine this: the company became Supermarine soon after that!
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What aircraft? I don't see anything...
The aircraft in post #100 is why you don't use a disjunction drive while in the Bermuda Triangle.
The guy in the Norwegian camp in 82's The Thing that Mac brought back actually wasn't the creature...just the unfortunate waist gunner that popped in.
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Look at how scary the boom attachment seems... I would NEVER have entrusted my life to that contraption!!
(Front view looks marginally better...)
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He isn't ugly, but cute!
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Coming in the Asian war theatres on January, 1941, the New Action Movie:
"The Bad, the Good, and the "Loire-130"
Tagline: "You ugly, but have the machine guns. Thai' fighters - not"
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Actually, I thought the Navy and early Air Force variants of the Phantom were reasonably decent-looking. The F-4E with the gun fairing and the plethora of external hinges on the slats that don't even really retract flush and the fixed slat on the stabilators though... such a collection of afterthoughts and band aids!
Anyway, no such thread would be complete without these three:
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Anyway, no such thread would be complete without these three:
Short Seamew – Wikipedia
Bennett Airtruck – Wikipedia
PZL M-15 Belphegor – Wikipedia
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Oh, no doubt about it! The Loire 130 is even cute in its own way...
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@Michel Van,
Thanks for that video.
Potez 75 - it was a CAS plane for Algeria
Delannes - smart, but ugly
Agree about the Amiot 143 - I would say tragically ugly, as those planes tried to stop the panzers on May 13, 1940 near Sedan: against ferocious flak, 109s and 110s.
Breguet Alizé - less ugly than any Gannet
SE.100: not exactly ugly, but a bastard that killed its crew in 1940
Leduc 022: that one, again ? it was glorious and spectacular looking
Loire 130 : already mentionned. Admittedly, it looks like a shoe box with a flying boat around it (ROTFL)
SNCASE Grognard: ok, that one is supremely ugly, an obese crossed with a huntchback (fat fuselage plus dorsal air intake = ugly combo)
Bleriot 125 : sweet geez, that one is truly horrible. My eyes are bleeding ! I told you @Stargazer we could find more abominations if we dug the interbellum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blériot_125 Seems it flew like a led brick, how surprising.
I knew about the Bleriot 127 (another horror not unlike my beloved Dyle & Bacalan) but the 125 looks like Porco Rosso's Mama Aiutos having a very bad day. Louis Bleriot died in 1936, 27 years after his channel crossing his star had paled... like too many french aircraft companies of the interbellum, he mostly produced monstrosities.
Finally, glad to see the Farman Jabiru winning the "ugly prize". The three engine variant is hard to beat as far as ugliness is concerned.
Thanks for that video.
Potez 75 - it was a CAS plane for Algeria
Delannes - smart, but ugly
Agree about the Amiot 143 - I would say tragically ugly, as those planes tried to stop the panzers on May 13, 1940 near Sedan: against ferocious flak, 109s and 110s.
Breguet Alizé - less ugly than any Gannet
SE.100: not exactly ugly, but a bastard that killed its crew in 1940
Leduc 022: that one, again ? it was glorious and spectacular looking
Loire 130 : already mentionned. Admittedly, it looks like a shoe box with a flying boat around it (ROTFL)
SNCASE Grognard: ok, that one is supremely ugly, an obese crossed with a huntchback (fat fuselage plus dorsal air intake = ugly combo)
Bleriot 125 : sweet geez, that one is truly horrible. My eyes are bleeding ! I told you @Stargazer we could find more abominations if we dug the interbellum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blériot_125 Seems it flew like a led brick, how surprising.
I knew about the Bleriot 127 (another horror not unlike my beloved Dyle & Bacalan) but the 125 looks like Porco Rosso's Mama Aiutos having a very bad day. Louis Bleriot died in 1936, 27 years after his channel crossing his star had paled... like too many french aircraft companies of the interbellum, he mostly produced monstrosities.
Finally, glad to see the Farman Jabiru winning the "ugly prize". The three engine variant is hard to beat as far as ugliness is concerned.
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Oh geez, Bleriot 125 led to the 127 which drove me to BCR and... (drums rolling) the Breguet 410. Now that's an abomination !
It looks like a glass tower - with an aircraft vaguely wrapped around it.
And the derived 460 was hardly better: "Flying greenhouse " LMAO
Breguet 462
It looks like a glass tower - with an aircraft vaguely wrapped around it.
And the derived 460 was hardly better: "Flying greenhouse " LMAO
Breguet 462
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I am always so fascinated by the monstrosities of the 20's and 30's that I cannot even find them ugly.
It is simultaneously the era I find most fascinating, and the era I have delved into the least. An age of "Let's just try this", and I love even the ugliest and least successful of them.
Airtruck, Norman Defender with the bulbous nose, and Nimrod AEW would probably get my top-three votes. Nimrod is doubly unfortunate because of it's lineage from the quite attractive Comet.
It is simultaneously the era I find most fascinating, and the era I have delved into the least. An age of "Let's just try this", and I love even the ugliest and least successful of them.
Airtruck, Norman Defender with the bulbous nose, and Nimrod AEW would probably get my top-three votes. Nimrod is doubly unfortunate because of it's lineage from the quite attractive Comet.
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You guys think you've seen "ugly"?
Take a good look at the "Istina"... and scream (with laughter)! A monstrosity from 1987 built by Vladimir Mikhailovich Toporov, of Votkinsk in the former Soviet Union, it looked as if Clément Ader had been asked to design the Piasecki "Rescuer"... Its name meant "truth", and it was defined as a "manned flywheel". The real "truth" about it is that it was a non-starter. Amused onlookers at SLA-87 (the Russian Oshkosh) commented that when it puttered and hopped its way across the field, "it almost looked as if it was going to fly"...
Take a good look at the "Istina"... and scream (with laughter)! A monstrosity from 1987 built by Vladimir Mikhailovich Toporov, of Votkinsk in the former Soviet Union, it looked as if Clément Ader had been asked to design the Piasecki "Rescuer"... Its name meant "truth", and it was defined as a "manned flywheel". The real "truth" about it is that it was a non-starter. Amused onlookers at SLA-87 (the Russian Oshkosh) commented that when it puttered and hopped its way across the field, "it almost looked as if it was going to fly"...
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Its designer certainly wendover the edge... (I'll get my coat)
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Germany had also ugly aircraft
like Dornier Do L Delphin
in earlier version sit pilot in open cockpit behind large engine block
later version place the pilot in glas house under the engine....
like Dornier Do L Delphin
in earlier version sit pilot in open cockpit behind large engine block
later version place the pilot in glas house under the engine....
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Definitely NOT ugly in my book!
Maybe yhis one? 'and even then, I kind of like its fugly appearance...)
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lol... the il-102... wtf were they thinking. a rear gunner on a small attack plane in mid/late cold war era. wow. the k2 wins today on this thread. i still love that abomination tho ngl.
Edit: and internal bomb bays lol
Edit: and internal bomb bays lol
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und Jetzt die 10 hässlichste Flugzeuge aus Deutschland...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-1e3GIRK8Y
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