What is the Ugliest Aircraft of All Time?

[Veldor]

The Waitomo Airtruk, featured in the film "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome". But it is a real aircraft designed by the Italians and built by the Australians sometime around the mid 60's....

[DandricSturm]

How about the Pitcairn autogyro?

[ShermanM4]

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Just looking up some of these is hillarious.

[Greyshaft]

ORIGINAL: Veldor

The Waitomo Airtruk, featured in the film "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome". But it is a real aircraft designed by the Italians and built by the Australians sometime around the mid 60's....

Saw one of last month when my darling wife took me to Bansktown Airport Air Museum as a birthday present. It's uh... quite functional and someone shore done hit it with the ugly stick

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

ok... its a pitot tube... but it had me going for a while before I figured it [:)]

The first thing I thought of was "The flying fickle finger of fate!"[:D]

[Hard Sarge]

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

ORIGINAL: RevRick

I've always been fond of the following

Actually I like the Defiant also... but I can't figure out why the closest one has a bent starboard wing [&:]

ahhhh, just in case, those are not Defiants

I beleive those are Blackburn Sukas

ahhhhh, I been looking for a pic of it and can't find one now (when I got this puter, lost a lot of my old sites)

but one I remember, the idea was to take parts from planes already being built, and make a plane out of them

I will try and hunt it down

[Hard Sarge]

Ah crud
I may be wrong, that may be a Roc, the Suka was the carrier model and those look more RAF

[DuckofTindalos]

The Blackburn Roc (pictured above) and the Blackburn Skua were both Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft. The Boulton Paul Defiant was a RAF aircraft, and actually quite attractive considering the gun turret.

[DuckofTindalos]

These are Skuas:

[DuckofTindalos]

And this is a Defiant:

[Greyshaft]

ORIGINAL: RevRick

I've always been fond of the following

Yup. I sit corrected. This is not a Defiant. But while I'm here eating humble pie, is it my imagination or is this plane missing its canopy? There seem to be guide rails behind the cockpit to hold the canopy but the dang canopy just ain't there.

[DuckofTindalos]

Part of the Roc's (and the Defiant's, for that matter) upper fuselage retracted to allow the gun turret to rotate fully. The three aircraft pictured all have different settings displayed for the camera.

[warhead2]

ORIGINAL: Greyshaft

ORIGINAL: RevRick

I've always been fond of the following

Actually I like the Defiant also... but I can't figure out why the closest one has a bent starboard wing [&:]

it's the negro pilot,a black thang

[invernomuto]

Here is my vote...

[stevemk1a]

Actually, that last one's kinda purdy ... [:)]

[DandricSturm]

R-4B



Probably looked pretty good to the 3 British soldiers and the pilot of the L-1 shot down 100 miles behind enemy lines when Lt. Carter Harmon, preparing the way for the Jolly Green Giants, performed the first helicopter rescue mission on Apr 25-26, 1944

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

The Blackburn Roc (pictured above) and the Blackburn Skua were both Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm aircraft. The Boulton Paul Defiant was a RAF aircraft, and actually quite attractive considering the gun turret.

Good point, and this guy was a real looker except for his nose




Re. the Defiant, I think it is a mixture of discordant design elements and just plain stupid engineering decisions. It is UGLY!

That French bomber is incomprehensibly ugly. It looks liek a boy scout troop put together some corrugated roofing with leftovers from a backyard greenhouse kit. I doubt the LSD theory. Timothy Leary could ahve done better than that.

[Puukkoo]

This plane looks actually rather beautiful among those certain ones

[oi_you_nutter]

ORIGINAL: Puukkoo

This plane looks actually rather beautiful among those certain ones

i would have to agree, it has sleek lines

[oi_you_nutter]

Handley Page Heyford

this is what happens when the production people have the design drawing upside down