Least Purty Aircraft of WW2

Nonskimmer · Sep 17, 2005

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

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Sep 17, 2005

Yeah it sure does.

evangilder · Sep 17, 2005

Hmmm, a flying fish?!

zerum · Sep 17, 2005

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

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Sep 17, 2005

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

Gnomey · Sep 17, 2005

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

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Sep 17, 2005

That about sums it up.

Gnomey · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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

JCS · Sep 17, 2005

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

DerAdlerIstGelandet · Sep 17, 2005

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

JCS · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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

JCS · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

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 · Sep 17, 2005

I agree nothing is more ugly than the stipa.

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