Least Purty Aircraft of WW2

[Smokey]

What are the least attractive aircraft of ww2?

Heres one:

Arado AR 198

An unsuccessful rival to the Focke-Wulf Fw 189 Uhu. It had disappointing handling and performance. Only prototype made

http://www.luftarchiv.de/flugzeuge/arado/ar198.htm

 

[d_bader]

I would say the vickers wellesley is high up the list. The shape of it is just awful to look at. Another ugly plane is the Martin B-10/B-12. The Vickers Vincent is also a really ugly plane.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I dont know I will have to look at my books, there are plenty of ugly aircraft out there.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

how dare you say the wellesley's ugly!!

and i dunno at the mo, i'll have a look see........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Id put the Lancaster and early Halifax's here because I think theyre hideous.

This is pretty f*cking ugly too.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

my god the halibag Mk.III's a fucking beauty queen!! she got runner up to the lanc though........

 

[JCS]

Well, leaving out everything french (listing all those would take forever ) the ones high on my list would be the Wellington Mk.VI, Caproni Stipa, Ju287, Handley Page Hampden and Curtiss SO3C...

 

[Udet]

The La-5FN and La-7.

While of interesting look when seeing profiles, I was surprised to realize how ugly and dirty they look in photo.

Like if they had been hastily produced. I have photos of brand new La-7s being delivered to squadrons and they already look worn out. Actually, they don´t look that very new.

The fuselages which should be clean and neat since we are talking about planes that just left the assembly lines, looks irregular, pretty much like if a group of messy children had glued the pieces.

 

[JCS]

I dont think they look too bad, they're nothing special but I wouldnt call them ugly....

 

[Dac]

I'd nominate the Amiot 143 bomber, it looks like a flying greenhouse.

 

[lesofprimus]

pretty much like if a group of messy children had glued the pieces.

Thats pretty much what they did........

 

[Dac]

You would have had a great view of the Bf109s and 110s coming to shoot you down, through all those windows!

 

[Gnomey]

That is one ugly plane Dac. Continuing with French Bombers with a great view of incoming BF109's and 110's: Bloch MB210.

(www.2iemeguerre.com)

Handley Page Heyford - although obsolete before the war wasn't declared obsolete until 1941.

(RAF)

 

[lesofprimus]

Gnomey, the pics didnt work dude....

 

[Gnomey]

Do now.

 

[lesofprimus]

Cool

 

[Dac]

That is one ugly plane Dac. Continuing with French Bombers with a great view of incoming BF109's and 110's: Bloch MB210.

Didn't Bloch change his name to Dassault after the war and produce some pretty decent aircraft?

 

[Gnomey]

He did here are some examples of what Bloch has produced as Dassault:

MD 450 Ouragan (1951)

Mirage F1 (1981)

http://www.dassault-aviation.com/passion/gb/dassault_a_a_z/histoire_aviation/1916_a_nos_jours.cfm
History of Bloch/Dassault

 

[evangilder]

Yep Maurice Bloch was also a member of the French Resistance.

 

[P38 Pilot]

French bombers??? Didnt know those exist back during WWII....

Hell, i didnt even know the French had any aircraft!