What is the ugliest aircraft?

[ShaneG_old]

i remember running across this a few months ago:
the russian Ka-7!

Has anyone seen one of these for FS?

[an-225]

Airplanes adhere to physics - not open minds.

[ShaneG_old]

Airplanes adhere to physics - not open minds.

Tell that to the people who built the F-117.

[an-225]

The "Wobbly Goblin" is unstable, but so are many other airplanes. They use flight computers to actually stay in the sky. But I doubt that any of this is relevant - what is relevant, is that an open mind with regards to 'aesthetics' or 'concepts' will not build an airplane properly.

I doubt the engineers at Boeing or Airbus sit around thinking, "Will this look nice?" Nor do they further a concept because it seems 'cool' like the monstrosity shown above. Airplanes are made to fly, not look nice (though you do get good looking planes).

[ShaneG_old]

The "Wobbly Goblin" is unstable, but so are many other airplanes. They use flight computers to actually stay in the sky. But I doubt that any of this is relevant - what is relevant, is that an open mind with regards to 'aesthetics' or 'concepts' will not build an airplane properly.

You doubt it's relevancy, yet you explained the relevancy before you made that statement.

Due to its design and appearance, the F-117 would not fly without those computers.
Therefore, some 'open minded' designers ignored physics, and built it according to how they wanted it to look to optimize its stealth features.

To avoid hijacking this thread, lets move our discussion to a new one  :

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2 ... 1249473775

[ApplePie]

A380 is not ugly, neither is most planes you put into your poll, B-52 is ugly though

The A380-800 is definitely a bit ungainly, but if Airbus goes ahead with the -900 it will give the 747-400 a run for its money.

http://aviacaoprimeiro.zip.net/images/00006210.jpg

[themoon7x]

i remember running across this a few months ago:
the russian Ka-7!

Has anyone seen one of these for FS?

[BrandonF]

Uh - when you have four rotors, you don't need a tail-rotor. The same can be said for two rotors.

Well I know that, but my point was that it was a stupid idea!

[masmith]

This has been dug up hasn't it

[homebrewer]

This:
http://www.allaboutguppys.com/sg/sgtest1a.jpg
All i had to do was type in worlds ugliest airplane into google images, and this was the first thing that popped up.

Is that even real

Yes, it is real. The Guppy was cobbled together to carry sections of space rockets from manufacture to assembly. Some would cal it ugly. I give it five stars for the idea...

[ApplePie]

This:
http://www.allaboutguppys.com/sg/sgtest1a.jpg
All i had to do was type in worlds ugliest airplane into google images, and this was the first thing that popped up.

Is that even real

Yes, it is real. The Guppy was cobbled together to carry sections of space rockets from manufacture to assembly. Some would cal it ugly. I give it five stars for the idea...

It was also used by Airbus before the Beluga. Compare the Guppy to the Beluga...see the likeness?
http://www.planelist.net/guppy.jpg
There was a joke going around back then that "every Airbus is delivered on the wings of a Boeing".

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

i remember running across this a few months ago:
the russian Ka-7!


and quite a few other uglies in the upper portion of this page: http://www.funonthenet.in/articles/biggest-airplanes.html

That reminds me of the German Flying Fortress from all the Alternative WWII stuff. Think if that had brand new C-130J motors? bad ass-ness.

But the A380 is to short and is as ugly as the 747SP, but the Baluga, and Gupy are ugly as sin.

[EJW]

[quote]This has been dug up hasn't it

[Capt.Propwash]

my choices for ugliest aircraft would be the::

Linke-Hofmann R1
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/r1.html


Short SC-7 Skyvan 3-100 --- paint job
http://www.airliners.net/photo/0625526/M/

i could find more, but for now these are my picks

[EJW]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-15_(1949)

You'll either love it or you'll hate it!