Ugliest Bomber of WWII

[Dixie]

I'm not sure if I'd call it ugly per se, but the Stirling was an ungainly looking machine at best.

[m10bob]

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.

I suspect the workmen had to "sneak up on it" to build it.
BTW, the Soviet paratoopers laid on the top of the wing and held onto handles. Once ready to drop, they let go and rolled back over those broad wings and fell off the plane!

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl

Don't have a picture handy, but shouldn't the slab-sided, drooped-chinned, British Whitley get a mention

Whitley

THANK YOU SIR. I think this certainly deserves an "honorable mention" in the contest.

[Big B]

ORIGINAL: PetrOs

Why no one mentioned italian SM-79 and SM-81?

I actually thought the SM 79 was kind of cool looking - in a funky sort of way...

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

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.

I suspect the workmen had to "sneak up on it" to build it.
BTW, the Soviet paratoopers laid on the top of the wing and held onto handles. Once ready to drop, they let go and rolled back over those broad wings and fell off the plane!

Well naturally, how else would one jump out (or in this case off) such a work of beauty. [:'(]...I've heard stories, though never had it confirmed that some of the USSR paratroops didn't actually have parachutes, but rather bails of hay strapped to their backs

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake



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

I suspect the workmen had to "sneak up on it" to build it.
BTW, the Soviet paratoopers laid on the top of the wing and held onto handles. Once ready to drop, they let go and rolled back over those broad wings and fell off the plane!

Well naturally, how else would one jump out (or in this case off) such a work of beauty. [:'(]...I've heard stories, though never had it confirmed that some of the USSR paratroops didn't actually have parachutes, but rather bails of hay strapped to their backs

Yeah - we discussed this on the THREAD - they bundled the paratroopers up in bales of hay and dumped them out at low altitude into deep snow... operational survival was said to be around 50%, however, details are scanty, and i don't have the book my old wargamer buddy read me the quote from. We (Threadians) tried to get MYTHBUSTERS to look at it, but they never replied (afaik).

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: m10bob

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.

I suspect the workmen had to "sneak up on it" to build it.
BTW, the Soviet paratoopers laid on the top of the wing and held onto handles. Once ready to drop, they let go and rolled back over those broad wings and fell off the plane!

This was discussed a few months ago on the fount of all knowledge (the THREAD) - this plane is stanger than it looks! There were gunners located in the inboard engine nacelles, and at one point the plane was powered by diesel engines (!!?!). The one big raid by this version on German positions featured a 60% loss rate, almost all due to engine failures, although "friendly fighters" shot down one (apparently as an aesthestic protest).

[Boozecamp]

It is hard to beat those interwar French box bombers. Aside from them, I find the Heinkel 177 to be a very unattractive plane.

[Dili]

I kick everyone that says my signature is ugly!!! [:@][;)]
 
 

[DuckofTindalos]

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:

[DuckofTindalos]

And:

[Jevhaddah_Slitherine]

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Not a Bomber but very strange all the same [:)]







I have had a model of this lying in the cupboard for several years now, I must get round to building it one day [:)]

Cheers

Jev
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[JeffroK]

The Vickers Wellesley, designed by Sir Barnes Wallis (At least in part)

I think your pic has been shortened a bit, the plane was a bit sleeker

The Bombay was a Bomber/Transport and saw action in the Western Desert as a bomber and for a few years as a Transport

[hawker]

B-25 "Mitchell" is ugliest

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: hawker

B-25 "Mitchell" is ugliest

You gotta be kidding..., the B-25 is gorgeous. Especially the "gun-ship" models...

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: hawker

B-25 "Mitchell" is ugliest

Aha... Riiiight...[8|]

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: hawker

B-25 "Mitchell" is ugliest

Aha... Riiiight...[8|]

Maybe he meant the ugliest when viewed from the "recieving end"?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

The Vickers Wellesley, designed by Sir Barnes Wallis (At least in part)

...and assisted by his faithful companion, Grommet!

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: Joe D.

Has to be the Consolidated B-24 Liberator; it was referred to as the "packing box the B-17 came in."

It was as hard to handle in the air as it was ugly.

What's wrong with the b-24? I'd consider as sleek, or more so than the fortress. Harder to fly maybe, but definitely a sharper looking AC.

The B-17 was a much prettier airplane in my opinion. Sturdier too.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Richrd

When Mrs Roosevelt was young, she was a drop dead stunning babe.

Were you dating her? [:D]