Tarkas: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
Found the beast here ...
I see what you mean
Was thrilled to see the Aussie Transavia PL-12 Airtruk high in the rankings as one of the World's Ugliest. Not merely thrilled, but proud. I owned one of the last of the breed in New Zealand. ZK-TRS was a 1980s PL-12 T-300 "Skyfarmer" which I operated for a time on aerial topdressing operations. This model had oleos in place of rubber blocks, a bigger cockpit and the very good 300 bhp Lycoming IO-540 K series engine. It would carry a tonne payload off a sloping strip but, at that weight, its rate of climb was similar to the somewhat larger Dornier X. But it handled very nicely in contradiction to the old tenet that "If it looks right, it will fly right". It was very agile and very aerobatic. But it sure was ugly and attracted goggle-eyed interest whereever I flew; particularly from American tourists, some of whom were convinced that I had built it myself.
And why not the H.P. 52 Hampden ?
And ..... What do you think about this strange bird ?
Russian ..... "Beauties" ......
American ..... "Beauty".....
British ..... "Beauty" .....
French ..... "Beauty" ..... in Nazi markings .....
Russian V/STOL ancestor ..... not precisely a "Beauty" .....
In the beginning ..... it was named "Beauty" .....
wait wait... there are no words to describe the Caproni Stipa... Mr Caproni managed to build a series of ungainly looking contraptions it seems ...
Guarda chi si rivede ...... Mariopilot .....
Undoubtedly ugly ..... but ..... at those days it was a forward-looking concept .....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqr2h_xQRk
Middle-East ugliness .....
Remembering Mickey Mouse's nose .....
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I happen to think the A-90 is the MOST BEAUTIFUL flying device ever built (not technically an airplane, but we won't split hairs). There are a couple remaining in Russia and I've been trying like hell for several years to get my hands on one.
I was thinking that Concorde and Tupolev are ugly but now I see that I was wrong?