Ugliest Bomber of WWII

[crsutton]

Tupalov ANT-6
 
http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/ant-6.php
 
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Tupulov/Aero59G1.htm

[Terminus]

Yes, that's been posted three or four times already...

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Yes, that's been posted three or four times already...

Yes, but it would be my choice as we...........Hey, 1001 posts and another star!


I really need to get myself a girlfriend.

[BrucePowers]

It is one ugly airplane.

[Reichenberg]

If an ASW bomber counts too, my first choice is the Kyushu Q1W1 Tokai:

Talking of the Do17 being ugly....

Uwe

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

If we're going to list the Hampden as an ugly plane, then the Ki-48 and the Baltimore/Maryland must go too. Here's another two:

I may have my wires crossed and no time to look it up, but isn't the Baltimore the same as the Martin? Which I think was listed toward the top of the thread. [;)]

[Terminus]

Not quite the same. This is the Baltimore:

[Terminus]

And this is the Maryland:

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: Reichenberg

If an ASW bomber counts too, my first choice is the Kyushu Q1W1 Tokai:
Talking of the Do17 being ugly....

Uwe

That link's broken...

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

And this is the Maryland:

Actually I think the Maryland isn't THAT bad, though I think Martin might get the award for most ugly bombers produced.

Here's the one I was thinking of...B-10....that turret on the nose looks like a pimple.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: String

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Mac67

Tupolev TB-3. It must have been damn cold in those open cockpits.

Mary Mother of God that is ugly! I think the factory workers should have refused to build it.

It carried up to 4000kg+ of bombs though, and that was back in 1932.. when the B-17 wasn't even on the drawing boards.

Yep - here is a US contemporary of the TB-3/Ant-6: The Curtiss B-2. The TB-3 comes off looking good compared to this. To be fair, the cockpit of the TB-3 was enclosed by the time WW2 came around.

The Soviets had probably the most advanced planes in the world when the TB-3 was first built... but then Stalin went and shot most of his airplane designers, assuring that the Soviet Airforce was no longer in the lead by 1939.

[Sonny II]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Tupalov ANT-6

http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/ant-6.php

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Tupulov/Aero59G1.htm

Looks like an apartment complex with wings.

[cantona2]

Is the Kyushu Q1W1 Tokai a copy of the Dornier?

[Terminus]

No.

[m10bob]

Terminus...a master of overstatement.[8D]

[Terminus]

I can't write big fat posts AND write a lot of them. You think 22986 posts just happen by themselves?[:D]

[Mynok]

No, they are outsourced to elves........ [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Sonny II

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Tupalov ANT-6

http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/ant-6.php

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Tupulov/Aero59G1.htm

Looks like an apartment complex with wings.

Another design contemporary with the Ant-6/TB-3 - The mighty Keystone B-6!!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Sonny II

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Tupalov ANT-6

http://www.aviastar.org/air/russia/ant-6.php

http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Aerospace/Tupulov/Aero59G1.htm

Looks like an apartment complex with wings.

Another design contemporary with the Ant-6/TB-3 - The mighty Keystone B-6!!

Or how about the Handley-Page Hinaidi? Of course, these weren't used as bombers in WW2, but it goes to show beauty is relative... [:D]

[Terminus]

A VERY distant relative, in this case...[:D]