Planes only a mother could love

[CORSNING]

Hey TBolt, I believe that first picture is of my first lawn mower. I've been wondering what happened to it. Who put the wings and tail on it. All that extra crap is just going to make it harder to mow the lawn you know.

 

[fastmongrel]

Hey TBolt, I believe that first picture is of my first lawn mower. I've been wondering what happened to it. Who put the wings and tail on it. All that extra crap is just going to make it harder to mow the lawn you know.

Oh its a lawn mower I thought it was a plane that had crashed into a paddle steamer

 

[Airframes]

Nah, it's the prototype Airborne Combined Harvester - the hopper was intended to be towed behind it, converted from a Waco glider .....
Some of these designers must have been Politicians - lot's of talk, but no experience of life, or common sense !

 

[Aozora]

Some French contenders

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Notice the engines in tandem pairs??

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

I can't understand how a country that made this:

could come up with these:

And then there are paint schemes...

 

[Capt. Vick]

Different factory...

 

[The Basket]

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

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Blackburn Blackburn? Not only fugly but stupid name.

Top speed 122mph and I thoughr it was supersonic!

Mein Gott. If you design aircraft for a living and come up with that no hope for you. I will need to look at Spitfire pix for a spell to remive that pig out of my mind.

 

[OldSkeptic]

Brilliant all of you and thanks so very much ... cracked me up laughing.

 

[herman1rg]

There are some ugly MF's there, i'm sure there are many more

 

[Wayne Little]

Different factory...

 

[Njaco]

Hey, Procrastintor, try to keep everything to one post, please.

Forget the lawnmower, WTF is that blue and tan vacuum cleaner?? That actually flew??

 

[Shortround6]

Unless they used trick photography;


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqr2h_xQRk


Some of the proposed versions are really scary.

 

[T Bolt]

Hey TBolt, I believe that first picture is of my first lawn mower. I've been wondering what happened to it. Who put the wings and tail on it. All that extra crap is just going to make it harder to mow the lawn you know.

Oh its a lawn mower I thought it was a plane that had crashed into a paddle steamer

Actually I think it was the result of a crash between these two.

 

[fubar57]

Unless they used trick photography;


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqr2h_xQRk


Some of the proposed versions are really scary.

That has got to be the aviation version of this...

Geo

 

[nincomp]

This Grumman XF5F Skyrocket, I admit is not as purely ugly as some of the other planes, but I cannot decide if it looks homely or comical.

At first glance, it appears that a small mutant airplane is trying to take a bite out of a flying wing.

 

[Marcel]

Hmmm, I like most of the aircraft on these pictures, That is saying something about me, I guess and I fear for my reputation .
I really love that Stipa-Caprioni. Reminds me of a barrel of beer, which is a good thing.
That last one looks like a low budget Whirlwind. When they got to the nose, the money was spend.
What's that last one in tbold's #17 post? Looks pretty neat.

 

[Marcel]

What about this? Gotta love the shape:

Boeing X-32

The british made some great (and thus ugly?) aircraft, too:

 

[Readie]

These do not follow the maxim 'if its looks right it probably is'..

 

[nincomp]

Oh look! Such a happy jet. See, it is smiling at us!

 

[Aozora]

Gotta ask what sadistic idiot could change this:

into this?

 

[vikingBerserker]

Looks like it has an old time hockey mask on.