UGLIEST Aircraft Built and Flown

[cluttonfred]

Many Farman designs were aesthetically challenged, but the 3-engine variant F.120 Jabiru was truly hideous.

 

[LowObservable]

Three favorites.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Many Farman designs were aesthetically challenged, but the 3-engine variant F.120 Jabiru was truly hideous.

I agree...the COMPLETE Farman production!

 

[Avimimus]

I forgot to add the b-24. Not as bad an offender as some here but for me it's definately to ugly sister of the US ww2 bombers.

Aesthetics are a funny thing - I find many of the designs on this page elegant and pretty - yet I could never fathom the B-17... I always preferred the B-24...

 

[LowObservable]

Mind you, one of the Fleet Shadowers was built by General Aircraft, so the last thing that should have been allowed was for G.A.L. to merge with Blackburn. Was this the heaviest/most powerful fixed-gear aircraft ever built?

 

[cluttonfred]

Many Farman designs were aesthetically challenged, but the 3-engine variant F.120 Jabiru was truly hideous.

I agree...the COMPLETE Farman production!

I wouldn't go that far, JM. Consider the Farman-Renault F.380 monowheel racer, which I find quite beautiful.

 

[LowObservable]

Inspiration for the U-2 landing gear...

 

[Abraham Gubler]

We can all be thankful that the cycloidal rotor (paddle wheels) have never caught on.

 

[hesham]

My dears and my friends,


I think that aircraft is the ugliest and strangest design I have ever seen.


http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=jOIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70&dq=popular+mechanics+1930&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RZQEVJeVBcqi0QWohIHACg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=popular%20mechanics%201930&f=false

 

[sferrin]

As a Cobra guy... posterior ugly! It's no wonder Apache pilots have an inferiority complex and compensate with big watches and egos!

If it just had retractable landing gear it would look so much better.