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What's the ugliest plane ever built??

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  • 07-27-2007 9:29 PM

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    Travel [ap] What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    My vote must go to the  Alekseyev A-90 Orlyonok.....now that's one ugly aircraft

     

    Photo credit to  Ilya Morozov

     

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  • 07-30-2007 1:48 PM In reply to

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    On the subject of ground effect aircraft here's a good graphic which includes the Orlyonok and the Ekranoplan - text is in french sorry:

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  • 07-30-2007 2:11 PM In reply to

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     Surely this ugly duckling never turned into a swan.

     They really are this ugly - having seen a couple in New Zealand and Australia.

     

     

  • 07-30-2007 2:17 PM In reply to

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     I would go with the TU-4 the russians idea of a B-29

     


     

     

     

     

     

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  • 07-30-2007 2:22 PM In reply to

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    And a front view

     

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  • 07-30-2007 2:56 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

     I remember once seeing a picture of a Westland Lysander (A good looking aircraft in my opinion) which had been ruined by having what looked like the empennage of a Lancaster bomber (Including the rear gun turret) attached to it but unfortunately I can't remember what its name was. Can anyone who's familiar with it show us a picture or at least tell me what this derivative was called so I can find one myself?

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  • 07-30-2007 3:16 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

     This is the one I was talking about, the Lysander P.12

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  • 07-31-2007 12:51 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    Here's another contender for the ugliest aircraft built, the Russians certainly have a feel for this

    The Beriev VVA-14 was an experimental ground effect aircraft developed in the developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. and was designed mainly to be an antisubmarine aircraft that could take off from water using the ground effect.

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  • 08-01-2007 11:17 AM In reply to

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    I conceed that freight aircraft are by their very nature functional but that doesn't mean I can't slag them off.

    Of particular note is Boeing's Dreamlifter, which looks like a pregnant hippo:

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  • 08-02-2007 10:46 AM In reply to

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    The 787 has to be right up there!

     Its the Fiat Multipla of the skys! As least it will be if they dont keep delaying its first flight!

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  • 08-02-2007 10:50 AM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    The 'Janet Street-Porter' of the aircraft world.....

    Ugly duckling

    DING! DING! DING!

     

    Titch

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  • 08-02-2007 11:55 AM In reply to

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    An airbourne camper van (twin rotors are cool though):

     

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  • 08-02-2007 12:44 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

     I can't imagine the Kaman KMAX will ever win any beauty prizes.

     

     

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  • 08-07-2007 7:54 AM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    Victor:

    The 787 has to be right up there!

     Its the Fiat Multipla of the skys! As least it will be if they dont keep delaying its first flight!

    Glad to see Airbus employees chip in!

     

  • 08-07-2007 11:15 AM In reply to

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    GeoX:
    Glad to see Airbus employees chip in!

    Ok in the interests of equality - here's a nother freaky freighter:

     

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  • 08-07-2007 12:10 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

     The Beluga is quite pretty in comparison to a Super Guppy.

     

     

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  • 08-07-2007 3:02 PM In reply to

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    Do we get prizes for the ugliest? I think I deserve one for this. It looks like quite an ambitious project. It's a Caproni CA-60. How did it ever get off the ground?

    It's a passenger flying boat with wings left over from WW1.

     

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  • 08-14-2007 4:03 AM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    How about the PZL M-15 Belphegor:

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    Or the Boeing EC-18B:

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  • 08-24-2007 2:23 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    A serious candidate must be the Britten-Norman BN2A-MKIII 'Trislander'...once described as "a series of doors flying in unison"........

     

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  • 08-24-2007 3:43 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

    I had the pleasure of flying on a Trislander a few years back..agree never seen an aircraft with so many doors opening to get passengers onboard...also fold down seats....it's always amused me how they take the engine support rod out of the aircraft to prop the rear fuselage up whilst on the ground...I wonder if at anytime someone’s forgot to remove it when the aircraft's pulled off.... 

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  • 08-24-2007 5:31 PM In reply to

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    How can you say that? I hope to fly this machine (787), and if you love airbus you sould love the fiat multipla for shure. I belive that the 380 is an ugly aircraft but not the ugliest. A god candidate could be the Shorts 360. Just one more thing im still waiting for the presentation date of the Airbus A-350. Be careful up there
  • 08-24-2007 11:52 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

     Well here's yet another one to throw into the mix..but is it plane or a helicopter?. The LTV-Hiller-Ryan XC-142A

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  • 08-25-2007 5:13 PM In reply to

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    Re: What's the ugliest plane ever built??

     since you said 'ever built' not 'ever flown' - the seddon mayfly must be a major contender - it looks

    like its already crashed before the 1st flight (attempt)

     



     

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  • 08-28-2007 2:31 PM In reply to

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    Nope, for true ugliness, you have to go to early 1930s France; the guys designing bombers then had a true genius for complete and utter violation of anything resembling aesthetics, and the pinnacle (?) of their creations was the Amiot 143. That thing is horrible to look at. Streamlining? What's that? Even biplane airliners have more appeal. More recently, Boring... er, Boeing came clo