Ugliest WW1 & WW2 Planes Contest

[jollyjack]

Ugliest WW1 & WW2 Planes Contest; as opener:

 

Edited October 15, 2020 by jollyjack

[messsucher]

You won ?

[AndyJWest]

I'd say that calling that a WW1 plane was questionable but whatever. For sheer ugliness, nothing can beat the efforts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There is an excruciating example already been posted somewhere on this forum, which resembles a collision between a cowshed, a windmill, and a disassembled giraffe skeleton, though perhaps fortunately I can't remember its name. Selective amnesia is a mental defence mechanism...

[blue_max]

Wow, what is that thing. Amazingly it seems to have achieved some moderate amounts of lift off!

[AndyJWest]

48 minutes ago, blue_max said:

Wow, what is that thing. Amazingly it seems to have achieved some moderate amounts of lift off!

 

It's an aeroplane (or something vaguely resembling one) built by Glenn Curtiss from an 1883 design, for use as evidence in his patent battle with the Wright Brothers. The original never flew, but it had features which Curtiss claimed were 'prior art' invalidating the Wright's patents.

 

Getting the lawyers involved was probably one of the reasons that the U.S. soon lagged behind other countries in aircraft development...

[Tyberan]

Anything built by Blackburn. 

[DD_fruitbat]

Anything made by Fairey.

[Gambit21]

This is traditionally the thread where someone will say “P-51” just to be an ass.

[Hanu]

2 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

This is traditionally the thread where someone will say “P-51” just to be an ass.

 

Actually the underbelly radiator does look like a beer-belly to me. Surely she is not the ugliest, but not one of the the prettiest either like Spit IX could be.

 

But I'd go with Tyberan's suggerstion regarding Blackburn's.

[Feathered_IV]

If any one of you suggests the Amiot 143 you are dead to me forever.  

[Uufflakke]

As someone said before in another topic: Anything French except the D.520

[Monksilver]

Vickers Valentia is in with a shout for the WW2 category - so ugly they only used it at night in Africa in 1940.

 

[DD_Crash]

Why would anyone think that that it was a good idea to go for a blind designer

[Uufflakke]

8 minutes ago, DD_Crash said:

Why would anyone think that that it was a good idea to go for a blind designer

 

A blind designer?

 

[Feathered_IV]

Don't adjust your screens.  It's the General Aircraft Fleet Shadower

 

[szelljr]

 

Edited October 30, 2020 by szelljr

[Avimimus]

15 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

If any one of you suggests the Amiot 143 you are dead to me forever.  

 

How could someone not find that tadpole gorgeous?! The 143 has a marvelous cockpit layout too (pilot and copilot arranged vertically). Now as for a B-17... I could never really understand what other people saw in those...

[Chief_Mouser]

The French didn't have a total monopoly on horrible-looking aircraft but they sure tried hard. How about this shocker? France's 'Battleship of the Air'.

 

 

It actually flew! 

 

 

[Lusekofte]

Amiot 143 ?

[von_Tom]

 

von Tom

[Chief_Mouser]

52 minutes ago, 216th_LuseKofte said:

Amiot 143 ?

 

That's torn it. Feathered will never speak to you again!

[Lusekofte]

1 hour ago, 216th_Cat said:

 

That's torn it. Feathered will never speak to you again!

You know me, I cannot resist a challenge 

[Stoopy]

On 10/30/2020 at 5:59 PM, Feathered_IV said:

Don't adjust your screens.  It's the General Aircraft Fleet Shadower

 

 

I swear that plane had to be the inspiration for Sikorsky

 

 

Edited October 31, 2020 by Stoopy

[Feathered_IV]

On 11/1/2020 at 7:16 AM, 216th_LuseKofte said:

Amiot 143 ?

 

On 11/1/2020 at 8:09 AM, 216th_Cat said:

 

That's torn it. Feathered will never speak to you again!

 

Luse, I never thought it would be you.  Im not mad.  I’m just really, really disappointed. 

[Lusekofte]

2 hours ago, Feathered_IV said:

 

 

Luse, I never thought it would be you.  Im not mad.  I’m just really, really disappointed. 

If you knew me better you would have been sure it had to be me, challanges are to me like bacon is for rat`s ?

I simply go on autopilot, not known for thinking before talking, ok I am not known for thinking, period.

 

All tho it is not the most beautiful plane, I will say it always facinated me. If I was zapped back in time and became a pilot. I always wanted to fly it, and the Grumman Duck. But I have a sick taste in planes

Edited November 2, 2020 by 216th_LuseKofte

[Feathered_IV]

Yes well, I’m fiddling with your voodoo doll now.  Let me know if you smell your hairs burning. ?

[Boomerang]

The Sud-Est SE 100 was one I found hard to admire and this one below, not sure what make it is?

 

 

[THERION]

36 minutes ago, Boomerang said:

The Sud-Est SE 100 was one I found hard to admire and this one below, not sure what make it is?

 

 

 

Looks like the front of a Lysander with the tail of one of these British bombers... 

[Lusekofte]

2 hours ago, THERION said:

 

Looks like the front of a Lysander with the tail of one of these British bombers... 

I seen explanation on this. Like training air gunners and so on. This picture has been shared all over internet. I seen it parked too. So I believe it is not photoshopped. 
Lysander+modified Lancaster tail

[SYN_Mugue]

3 hours ago, Boomerang said:

The Sud-Est SE 100 was one I found hard to admire and this one below, not sure what make it is?

 

 

That must have been 'one hell of a' mid-air collision! :)

[TRRA15]

Polish LWS-6 Żubr

[AndyJWest]

You sure that's Polish, TRRA15? That's a Habsburg chin if ever I've seen one. ?

 

[Sandinourcoffee6]

CAPRONI 12 wing flying hotel,it crashed on second trial run,,

[TRRA15]

On 10/29/2020 at 6:54 PM, Tyberan said:

Anything built by Blackburn. 

Good one.

 

Still trying to wrap my mind around the reason for that tall nearly vertical windshield. That must cost that thing every bit of 30 mph ( or say 50 kmh ) in speed

 

Edited November 2, 2020 by TRRA15

[Monksilver]

10 hours ago, Boomerang said:

The Sud-Est SE 100 was one I found hard to admire and this one below, not sure what make it is?

 

 

It is Westland P.12 Wendover, a prototype  for a ground attack role. First flown in 1941 but the RAF had the good sense not to order any and the programme was scrapped in 1944 - bit worrying it took 3 years to make that decision though.

 

[Tyberan]

Blackburn Blackburn, like a band's crappy self titled album.

 

[40plus]

There are certainly several fringe designs that are crazy ugly but if you limit to planes of note, ones that played a significant role, the Hurricane gets my vote for king fugly. Aesthetically it has no game. It looks like the combination of an airplane, a motorhome and a greenhouse.

[Chief_Mouser]

51 minutes ago, 40plus said:

There are certainly several fringe designs that are crazy ugly but if you limit to planes of note, ones that played a significant role, the Hurricane gets my vote for king fugly. Aesthetically it has no game. It looks like the combination of an airplane, a motorhome and a greenhouse.

 

Nonsense! It looks like what it is - a biplane with the top wing removed. ?

[Rothary]

Speaking of which,

 

experimental Hillson FH.40

 

[ZachariasX]

8 hours ago, Rothary said:

experimental Hillson FH.40

...that would require to map a „jetison top wing“ button...