The "ugliest" a/c of all times

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The A-6E (Especially the EA-6B) and the MH-53E never struck me as particularly attractive aircraft on the ground. They did seem to acquire some grace in the air.
 
Any aircraft made by Blackburn.
They did have a knack for making some clunky aircraft: I'd say of the designs you showed, if I was to rank them...
  1. Blackburn Blackburn
  2. Blackburn Beverly
  3. Blackburn B.54: The design is somewhat slab-sided, though it's got some rounding to it's overall frame. It looks ugly in the picture because of the opened weapons bay doors.
  4. Blackburn Roc
  5. Blackburn Skua
I wouldn't consider the Firebrand to be ugly, it just looks like many other radial engined naval fighters: I think it's an overweight beast, but not particularly ugly.
 
My favorite of the Soviet post-WWII ugly ones.
Il-40-2.

Even the artist's impression does not help.


Tupolev (allegedly) said after seeing the prototype: "what's in Mikoyan's ass... is in Ilyishin's nostrils".
Reference to Mikoyan was probably because of MiG-19 which was tested in about the same period.
 
An F84F with elephantiasis!
 

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