Ugliest Plane of WW2?

[Lightning Guy]

As far as it shape was concerned, it was virtually a copy of the Gee-Bee air racers.

 

[a finn]

LaGG-3? I think this plane looks quite ordinary.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the cockpit's to far back if you ask me.............

 

[Lightning Guy]

The cockpit was in better position that on the MiG-3. I've never liked the looks of the LaGG, I can't tell you why. Interestingly, I think the La-5 and La-7 were the best looking of all Russian planes.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i don't think the IL-2 looked thet bad....................

 

[Lightning Guy]

The Il-2 was hideous. The airscope on top of the engine cowling ruined any chance it might had had at looking good.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well it's a matter of opinion, so we'll have 2 agree to dissagree..............

 

[Schrage Muzik]

The Hs. 129 was the worst. Worse than the Il-2.

 

[JCS]

posted by a finn Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:29 pm:

Even this is much uglier : Polikarpov I-16

The I-16......ugly!!?? IMO, the I-16 was one of the best looking planes of WW2.

I like the way almost all German planes look but I'd say the Blohm und Voss BV-141 is one of the ugliest if not THE ugliest of the war.

 

[Schrage Muzik]

Nonsense, I think it's a very elegant design.

 

[plan_D]

It looks stupid, not ugly. How can it be nonsense, it is an opinion.

 

[dead parrot]

Has anyone mentioned those really ugly French bombers from the late 30s? Like the Amoit 143M?

http://www.kheichhorn.de/html/body_amiot_143.html

It looks like an airship gondola with tractor wheels and bits of plane-like stuff stuck to it. Urgh.

 

[Lightning Guy]

The French had an almost limitless supply of ugly planes.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i think the Potez 630's not that bad.....................

 

[Lightning Guy]

It's not bad. And the D.520 was very pretty. But everything else looked aweful.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

don't you think that the front half of the Breguet 690 looks a bit like the beau??

 

[MichaelHenley]

LaGG-3? I think this plane looks quite ordinary.

Apart form the fact that the cockpit is too far back, it almost lookes like a Spit...

P.S. If anyone thinks I am doing a few too many posts its bacause I have nothing to do!!

 

[toffi]

I would rather say that front of Lagg's fuselage looks quite similar to Spit, what makes it very nice plane (but awful to use).

 

[Lightning Guy]

It was the rear half of the LaGG that looked so aweful.

 

[plan_D]

I don't think it looks bad at all.