Most Unattractive Aircraft of WW2

[GTX]

You can park it next to any French 1920s, early 30s bomber

Haven't you heard of the concept of Sexy-Ugly?

Speaking of which:

And it did undertake combat missions in WW2

 

[Warspite63]

Haven't you heard of the concept of Sexy-Ugly?

Speaking of which:

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And it did undertake combat missions in WW2

Notice how they aren't flying in a straight line? Plane 2 can't stand looking at Plane 1's butt-end ..... Plane 3 can't stand looking at Plane 2.....etc........... ;-P

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

As the man said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder... now I will gladly take possession of the XP-75 if nobody else wants it

So would Johnny Cash:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErKI0zWgjg

 

[yulzari]

Haven't you heard of the concept of Sexy-Ugly?

Speaking of which:

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And it did undertake combat missions in WW2

As did this

When stately galleons take to the air……

 

[SaparotRob]

 

[The Stannum Liberator]

As did this

Looks like a baby Barling Bomber, which although not ww2, is pretty darn ugly.

2 and a half wings, a weird half enclosed fuselage

They tried to fly it once over the Appalachians and failed miserably

 

[yulzari]

Looks like a baby Barling Bomber, which although not ww2, is pretty darn ugly.
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2 and a half wings, a weird half enclosed fuselage
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They tried to fly it once over the Appalachians and failed miserably

At least the Valentia flew for years of reliable hard use from Libya to Iraq and the East African campaign. It could also deliver a platoon of 22 infantry to a rough field site at 100 knot instead of the mere 95knots of it's predecessors. 84 were made and served from 1934 to 1944 and could carry 2,200lb of bombs.

Not bad for a design that began as the Vickers Virginia which was ordered in 1921 as a better Vimy and entered service in 1924 and itself served in front line service until 1938 and in other tasks almost to 1942. One was even launched from a catapult. The Virginia could carry a 3,000 bomb load.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejA9bwVh7-Q

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65e4slhhKc&t=14s

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4KQ50xboUI

 

[NVSMITH]

Though if you look at the one in the USAF Museum, it is beautiful:

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More here:

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195783/fisher-p-75a-eagle/

-Here's a thought: pity the chap who had to develop synchronized MGs...

 

[Currell]

Bloch 210 and 200

 

[Currell]

Agree with the Amiot 143.

 

[Currell]

Interesting that, as ugly as the '30s designed French bombers were, their automobiles were astonishingly beautiful.

Google Delahaye 135 and 165.

 

[special ed]

By the 1950s the planes were getting beautiful and the cars ugly. Renault 4CV and the later thing with all 4 doors interchangeable. 2CV?

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

By the 1950s the planes were getting beautiful and the cars ugly. Renault 4CV and the later thing with all 4 doors interchangeable. 2CV?

The 2CV was a Citroën:

As beautiful as one can expect of a interwar period french bomber.

 

[buffnut453]

The 2CV was a Citroën:

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As beautiful as one can expect of a interwar period french bomber.

I think they recycled a number of bomber parts...without smelting them down again first!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

The 2CV was a Citroën:

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As beautiful as one can expect of a interwar period french bomber.

That thing could make a freight-train take a dirt road.

 

[SaparotRob]

..on a rainy night.

 

[GTX]

Bloch 210 and 200

Quite attractive in my quirky way of thinking:

 

[GTX]

And let's not forget the Farman F.220:

 

[GTX]

And Potez 540

 

[GTX]

And the Potez 650: