Least Purty Aircraft of WW2

[Nonskimmer]

It kinda looks like one of those giant groupers. You know, those big ugly fish.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yeah it sure does.

 

[evangilder]

Hmmm, a flying fish?!

 

[zerum]

More of the Stipa, ;http://www.italiankits.it/doratistipa.html

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I dont know I dont mind ugly aircraft but for some reason that really gets me going. I can not stand it.

 

[Gnomey]

That is one ugly plane Alder, I cannot stand, it just looks, well... stupid.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

That about sums it up.

 

[Gnomey]

Found a colour photos of it and another one that shows it almost head on, I can't believe anybody took it seriously let alone order it into production.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I dont even know what the aircraft was to be used for.

 

[JCS]

It was never meant to go into service, it was just a test bed for some new engine or something....

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

What the hell was the engine going to be used for.

 

[JCS]

I dunno, I forget what it was all about. I think somebody posted a link about it in one of the older ugly aircraft threads, I'll try to find it.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I really have no info on the aircraft except that it looks like a flying turd.

 

[JCS]

A quick google search brought up this:

From the familiar design halls of Italy's Caproni comes the naked horror of the Stipa, built in 1932 to test the thrust effect of a tubular fuselage. The 120 Hp. DH Gipsy III yielded a top speed of 81 Mph, and the lift effect of the tube made the landing speed 42 Mph.

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/stipa.html

 

[Wildcat]

That colour pic above, is a replica built in Australia by a very well known warbird operater. The thing that puzzles me is when you have a hanger with a/c such as a Mustang, T-28, T-6,Fiat G59 and a stearman, why would you want to mess up your hanger space with that thing??

 

[me262]

belive or not, the put around 200,000 british pound to the project, is the concept of the ducted fan engine, and some said that this was used to produce the pulse jet engines, the ones used by the vi flying bombs

 

[Wildcat]

Oh BTW my vote for the ugliest a/c goes to the Blohm and Voss Bv138, that hideous thing known as the "flying Clog"

 

[JCS]

The Stipa is definately the ugliest I've seen. It looks like some kid took a toilet paper roll and glued some wings and a cockpit to it.....

 

[Smokey]

A link to an ugly aircraft page

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/farmer/120/index.html?1=BACK

And an example

Wellington Mk. VI

Not WW2, but still ugly

Waitomo Airtruk, seen in a Mad Max film

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I agree nothing is more ugly than the stipa.