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The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Canuck. » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:24 am

list the planes you find the ugliest(with a pic) it must have flown, or can fly
heres my ugliest plane
its called a =Beriev Bartini VVA 14=
the wings are missing on the first pic
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pretty ugly, huh
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Isak922 » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:13 am

If anyone mentions the A-10A Warthog, I kill you.  ;)

As for "Ugly", I personally think the X-32 takes the cake here...

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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Hagar » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:28 am

I'm not sure that anything that flies can be called ugly. Unconventional perhaps &, as I've said many times before, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There are some contraptions that only a mother designer could love & the Stipa Caproni takes some beating. IMHO
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby TSC. » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:56 am

My god Doug :o That Stipa Caproni sure is a weird looking beast, ugly? Oh dear lord yes! But I think I'd still have one for the sheer comedy value, imagine that at a fly-in ;D ;D

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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Djem » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:01 am

I have will never understand how that fugly beriev could fly, with such small wings in comparison to the rest of the plane. But to me, the next ugliest plane is the constellation http://www.conniesurvivors.com/pictures/N6904C-12Sep52.jpg
Eww the nose wheel always gives me the creeps.
The 757 is of course the prettiest though!
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You should definately try to fly the 757 once. it's like a rocket!
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby expat » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:04 am

A 10 Warthog

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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Hagar » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:49 am

But to me, the next ugliest plane is the constellation http://www.conniesurvivors.com/pictures/N6904C-12Sep52.jpg
Eww the nose wheel always gives me the creeps.

Just goes to prove what I said. The Super Connie is regarded by many (including me) as the most beautiful propliner ever built.
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Tweek » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:54 am

But to me, the next ugliest plane is the constellation http://www.conniesurvivors.com/pictures/N6904C-12Sep52.jpg
Eww the nose wheel always gives me the creeps.

Just goes to prove what I said. The Super Connie is regarded by many (including me) as the most beautiful propliner ever built.


Maybe not the best looking propliner, but it's certainly not ugly! I prefer the look of the Super Constellation, myself.

As for the 757, that's just a tube with wings stuck on it!
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Hagar » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:58 am

But to me, the next ugliest plane is the constellation http://www.conniesurvivors.com/pictures/N6904C-12Sep52.jpg
Eww the nose wheel always gives me the creeps.

Just goes to prove what I said. The Super Connie is regarded by many (including me) as the most beautiful propliner ever built.


Maybe not the best looking propliner, but it's certainly not ugly! I prefer the look of the Super Constellation, myself.

That's what I said. ::) Super Connie = Super Constellation. :P

As for the 757, that's just a tube with wings stuck on it!

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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Mobius » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:00 am

There aren't any ugly aircraft, just terribly goofy looking aircraft, like the Curtiss-Goupil Duck: http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/fa ... 0/duk.html
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby dcunning30 » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:23 am

If it even flies in the first place, I'd say the pic of the red compact car with wings stuch on it would qualify as the ugliest aircraft I've ever seen.
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby expat » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:30 pm

If it even flies in the first place, I'd say the pic of the red compact car with wings stuch on it would qualify as the ugliest aircraft I've ever seen.


They always say that genius verges on the insane though.

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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Tweek » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:32 pm

That's what I said. ::) Super Connie = Super Constellation. :P


Oh sorry, I misread. I also got mixed up, not realising there were short nosed Super Constellations.

I prefer the long nosed types. ;)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1140897/L/
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Hagar » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:40 pm

That's what I said. ::) Super Connie = Super Constellation. :P


Oh sorry, I misread. I also got mixed up, not realising there were short nosed Super Constellations.

I prefer the long nosed types. ;)

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1140897/L/

No problemo. I thought the one in the photo was a Super Connie but I could be wrong. I don't see how either could be called ugly by any stretch of the imagination. ::)
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Re: The Ugliest Aircraft!!

Postby Isak922 » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:31 pm

A 10 Warthog

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