French Flying Boat

[cardboard_killer]

[Vig]

French aircraft design is certainly distinctive.  +1

[AndyJWest]

It is actually a development of the Short Calcutta. Though transforming it from a civil transport to military recon hasn't done a great deal for its looks - the stick-up-like-a-sore-thumb vertical stabiliser was presumably added so they could get a gunner position behind it.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bréguet_521_Bizerte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_S.8_Calcutta

https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1930/untitled0 - 1145.html