Planes only a mother could love

fastmongrel · May 31, 2013

I know this has been done before but I have come across some new to me aircraft that surely only flew because they beat the air into submission. To start things off I give you the Armstrong-Whitworth A.W.29.

fastmongrel · May 31, 2013

With all the grace and elegance of a factory chimney the Blackburn Blackburn

Aozora · May 31, 2013

fastmongrel said:
With all the grace and elegance of a factory chimney the Blackburn Blackburn

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And not only did Blackburn love the Blackburn - they made a BIGGER version - the Cubaroo!

Just to show that de Havilland had their off days, the D.H 29 Doncaster:

Bristol Brandon, which looks reasonably comely in comparison:

Aozora · May 31, 2013

While some planes weren't born ugly...

GregP · May 31, 2013

Pretty ugly stuff there, Aozora. I'm at somewhat of a loss to figure out how they could have mounted that giant antenna any better, but it IS ugly, isn't it?

fastmongrel · May 31, 2013

Aozora said:
And not only did Blackburn love the Blackburn - they made a BIGGER version - the Cubaroo!

Jeepers thats an insult to the air. That was definitely designed by someone who preffered walking to flying.

Aaron Brooks Wolters · May 31, 2013

Here's another.

Njaco · May 31, 2013

Planes only a mother could love

Gawd, I'd hate to see the mudder!

pattle · May 31, 2013

The Fokker DXXIII, it looked like a Reliant Robin with wings, very ugly indeed.

Procrastintor · May 31, 2013

I am about to upload the anti-sexy, it's the opposite of a P-40

Procrastintor · May 31, 2013

Procrastintor · May 31, 2013

Looks like a butterfly after a long battle with drugs. Then made into creepy robot form.

stug3 · Jun 1, 2013

fastmongrel said:
With all the grace and elegance of a factory chimney the Blackburn Blackburn

Looks like a flying industrial refrigeration unit.

yulzari · Jun 1, 2013

The General Aircraft G.A.L.38 Fleet Shadower was even uglier than the Airspeed GA39 Fleet Shadower and the GA38 was bad enough.

Shortround6 · Jun 1, 2013

Some French contenders

Notice the engines in tandem pairs??

only made to the "H"s of French Aviation and not used any from before 1918.

stug3 · Jun 1, 2013

If this thing is a seaplane I would hope the seats in those pontoons had some heavy duty shock absorbers.

T Bolt · Jun 1, 2013

Here's a few

Marcel · Jun 1, 2013

pattle said:
The Fokker DXXIII, it looked like a Reliant Robin with wings, very ugly indeed.

go wash you mouth, young man. That's blasphemy
I always thought it's a very nice aircraft. Admittedly ot would have been even prettier with the intended DB601's installed.

fastmongrel · Jun 1, 2013

Marcel do you have any projected performance figures for the production DXXIII. I believe it did over 300mph with only 2 x 500hp engines, 2 x 1,000hp RR or DB engines and it would have been a real flyer. Thats if they could have got the cooling for the rear engine sorted pusher engines seem to have been troublesome.

Marcel · Jun 1, 2013

Of course:
For the Walter Sagitta engines: 535 km/h at 4100 m, so that would be about 332km/h.
With RR Kestrel XV it could do 565 km/h at 4425m, but I don't believe they tested that.

Fokker calculated a speed of over 600km/h with either the DB or Merlin engines. But they were never fitted because of the embargo.
They had cooling problems allright. More so because the Walters were air cooled inlines.

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