The "ugliest" a/c of all times
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That was not an airplane that one would relish having to mess with the launchbar while on the Cat.
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Lucky13
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Supermarine PB3IE 'Nighthawk'.
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swampyankee
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- Jun 25, 2013
British Aerocraft Industry Takes Early Lead in Contest for the World's Most Unprepossessing Aircraft.
While France and the United States had heavier-than-air aeroplanes roaring aloft some years before the Sceptred Isle, British industry rose to than challenge to create a uniquely British advance on the practice of flight. Noel Pemberton-Billing designed the Nighthawk, a tetraplane with such advanced features as electric lighting, provided by an engine driven generator. With this aeroplane, not only does British industry claim the position of the most innovative and advanced aeroplane to fly, but the most unprepossessing. French designer, Jean-Claude Viakuirado-Kaŭzas-Freŝojn, Dipl. Ing., École latérale d'ingénierie des nouveautés, has said this will not stand, and France, with the assistance of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture, will rise to the challenge of extreme aesthetics in aeroplanes, and prevail in this regard, as it has at sea.
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tengu1979
Airman
Sorry if that offends someone but I always thought Fairey Gannet extremely ugly,
I do not think anyone will disagree with you.
RW Mk. III
Airman 1st Class
This is going to bring down all heck on me. But I think the Avenger is awful looking. All the ratios seem wrong. Looks like an overweight duck from some angles on its landing gear.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
The Avenger and Gannet were designed to be ugly. They were intended to scare the s**t out of submarine crews !
Most people are surprised that it is an aircraft that flew, it always looks to me as if it was the winning design in a follow on to "Thomas the Tank Engine" but involving aircraft.
Does look ugly but rugged..
tengu1979
Airman
It is rugged. Was a decent anti sub aircraft as well but not exactly a looker what was a theme of this post.
davparlr
Senior Master Sergeant
All Lockheed Martin had to do is show this aircraft painted like a Blue Angel and Boeing would have lost the Navy vote.
Sacrilege
Being Audrey Hepburns slightly less attractive sister doesn't mean you are a hunchback.
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