The "ugliest" a/c of all times

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ivanotter

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Here is a new one:

The ugliest a/c in your opinion. The one that make your stomack turn.

Never mind functionality or usage. Just plain ugly. Something where you feel the designers turned it into a joke on purpose.

Like my candidate: X-32

I get the feeling the designers did it on purpose. Just to embarras the sales man. Maybe they had a competition to redefine "ugly".

Any other candidates?

Ivan
 
There were some real ugly planes out there, but it does seem like the French produced some of the ugliest...

Here's a French machine (roughed up by the Germans during 1940) that has to be a grand-prize winner in the fugly catergory...
 

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I am terrible convinced it is the famous ANT-20:

Wkipedia:



From Wki:

The ANT-20 was designed by Andrei Tupolev and constructed between July 4, 1933 and April 3, 1934. It was one of two aircraft of its kind ever built by the Soviets. The aircraft was named after Maxim Gorky and dedicated to the 40th anniversary of his literary and public activities.

It was intended for Stalinist propaganda purposes and, therefore, equipped with a powerful radio set called "Voice from the sky" ("Голос с неба", golos s neba), printing machinery, radiostations, photographic laboratory, film projector with sound for showing movies in flight, library etc. For the first time in aviation history, this aircraft was equipped with a ladder, which would fold itself and become a part of the floor.

Also, for the first time in aviation history, the aircraft used not only direct current, but alternating current of 120 volts, as well. The aircraft could be disassembled and transported by railroad if needed. The giant aircraft set a number of carrying capacity world records and is also the subject of a 1934 painting by Vasily Kuptsov, in the collection of the Russian Museum at St. Petersburg
 
ANT-20 is an odd thing.

The Kalinin K-7 is even more odd.

PS: The inventor of The Kalinin. Mr. Kalinin, got executed as "enemy of the state" because his invention crashed and killed 14 people.

Now, how is that for incentive for the F-35 project (giggle).

PPS: are the military a/c actually designed? Or do they just get the look because the engineers have hurled the components together?

Was it luck that the F-4 and Super Hornet actually look good?
 
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