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Ugliest Aircraft Ever Built

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What do you think is the ugliest airplane ever built?

I'll set the bar high for future posters:

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Well, I was joking in the other thread, but here you go.
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That's not ugly, that's practical.
We usually ship things in boxes don't we?

When growing up didn't we all sit in cardboard boxes and pretend to be flying Spitfires and wot-not?

This is ugly:

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Beat This!
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Honorable mention goes to Boeing:

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What about this?

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Hey, Hedley, that plane just looks really happy!!!! Or like it's trying to eat something. :smt040
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Is that the new PC12-60s LSD?
P+W PT6-Floral power plant.
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now this is fugly!



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AEROMONKEY wrote:Beat This!
Cheech and Chong's private airplane!!! :smt040
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This Aircraft was at OshKosh this past summer.
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AEROMONKEY wrote:Beat This!
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Anti bird strike paint job :smt023
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Rudder Bug wrote:Image
I don't mind this one actually. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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The Brits won this award many times over in the past. Many types like the ones below were likely superb aircraft where form met function. The aesthetics of these machines, however, were only cherished by those who saw beauty in things like a shiny new crow bar or a sexy tow hitch. :lol:


The Blackburn Beverly

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The Vickers Valiant

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The Handley Page Victor

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lilncrew, i kinda like the second two actually. :mrgreen:

5x5, what the hell is that??? :?
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Just another canuck wrote:5x5, what the hell is that??? :?
Isn't that actually one of those ground effect craft? It's just designed to fly in ground effect...or am I mistaking it for some other crazy russian design?
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That Victor was a sinister aeroplane... I wouldn't call it ugly. Broke a lot of windows when breaking the sound barrier was seen as a fun exercise!
And what's ugly about the Valiant?

Beautiful aeroplanes are the Spitfire, Mosquito, Hawker Hunter, Vickers VC10, Concorde.
Even both Comets were elegant.

But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, a lot of people around here think the Cessnas look lovely... :roll:
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How does that saying go? If it is ugly it is British, if it is strange it is French and if it is ugly AND strange it is Russian?

Though Boeing took a very classic lined 747 and turned it into THIS:

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Then there is the Wilga that the Cadets where using as a tow plane:

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The Super Guppy to transport Saturn booster parts:

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And the Phalcon:

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TG wrote:
AEROMONKEY wrote:Beat This!
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Anti bird strike paint job :smt023

I'll bet if VAL adopted this paint job, they'd still want 15K from the pilots to fly it!

Imagine walking out to that thing just a wee bit hung over......
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Just another canuck wrote:lilncrew, i kinda like the second two actually. :mrgreen:

5x5, what the hell is that??? :?
That is what is called an Ekranoplan, it flys in ground effect, Russia were developing them for moving a massive amount of troops long distances on lakes very quickly. That specific one I have no idea there are thousands of different ones. America couldn't believe the size of the first one they saw it weighed in the region of 600 tons. Take a read on wikipedia it's quite interesting.
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