Most Unattractive Aircraft of WW2 (2 Viewers)

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Re: the A/C mentioned in post #190 - The YC-125, and its competitor for the contract at the time, the XC-123, were efforts to provide a short-field, short-haul, tactical transport, to take up the space that gliders had formerly held, and helicopters could not yet fill. The promise of turbine power for helos was on the near horizon, though, and these two stout but ugly birds remained as two-or-three build prototypes / service test only. There was also the dust-up between the Air Force and the Army over who got to do what, where, and when, unfolding through this development period, so there was that, too.
And I would like to thank Graeme for finding and sharing a more complete mention of that wretched Capelus attempt, in post #205. I remember first reading of it in an ancient edition of "Air Enthusiast". I stand humbly corrected on the crash part of the statement...
 
By the way, Grant, your Bristol 170 looks quite like the Budd RB-1 "Conestoga" transport.

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Hey! That beautiful beast was mt Grandmother's design.

Her name was Fransis Walsh, and she was athe ebgineer they assigned to the project at Budd. My Aunt had pix, but I was never able to get copies...

Oh, and sorry for the weird file names, got the pix off the net--in fact, I think it was from this site


Feel free to rename them.... (;^)>
 

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Sorry for the triple post guys. When I pressed the post reply button it didn't Look like it registered so I kept tapping it but apparently it did.
 
Well, you should have poked fun at pgf 666 grandmother's design because it is hedious , butt ugly and an abomination in the sametime.
 
Just so American aircraft companies don't feel too left out:
XP-79 (which also goes into the category "What the h*** were they thinking?")
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and the XF-85, most aptly named "Goblin"
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Both images are from Wikipedia
 
True. That's pretty well, ugly. However, was this aircraft if WWII?
 

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