WWII's ugliest fighter (of these options)

Gabelschwanz_Teufel · Apr 27, 2017

I'd like to ask the two wankers who voted for the Corsair how they could do so?

For my diner it was one of the best looking aircraft. Those gull wings, deep blue steel coloration, tapered fuselage. Just gorgeous. Right up there with the mustang and that beauty to the left! LOL

The Stuka was pretty cool too. I must have a thing for gull wings, eh?

Shortround6 · Apr 27, 2017

Hmmm, so far the leaders are.

One would think that the voting would be further apart

Is it just me or does it seem on most photos of the G.50 that the engine and fuselage are pointed in different directions?

The leader, the Skua looks almost sleek in comparison to the G.50.

DarrenW · Feb 10, 2018

Gabelschwanz_Teufel said:
I'd like to ask the two wankers who voted for the Corsair how they could do so?

I was a little annoyed that anyone could find the F6F ugly, until I saw that more people voted for the F4U in this category. And while I think the Corsair is definitely the prettier of the two, the Hellcat has a brutish look to it which I believe makes up for any of the graceful lines that it may lack.

wuzak · Feb 10, 2018

DarrenW said:
I was a little annoyed that anyone could find the F6F ugly

Well, it aint pretty.

DarrenW said:
the Hellcat has a brutish look to it which I believe makes up for any of the graceful lines that it may lack.

To me, not really brutish. More industrial. Like it is made from steel girders.

pbehn · Feb 10, 2018

wuzak said:
To me, not really brutish. More industrial. Like it is made from steel girders.

I think it is a great improvement on the "ironing board forced through a beer barrel" look of the Wildcat.

swampyankee · Feb 10, 2018

Shortround6 said:
Hmmm, so far the leaders are.
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One would think that the voting would be further apart

Is it just me or does it seem on most photos of the G.50 that the engine and fuselage are pointed in different directions?

The leader, the Skua looks almost sleek in comparison to the G.50.
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Shows that looks are deceiving

DarrenW · Feb 10, 2018

wuzak said:
Well, it aint pretty.

I don't think you'd find anyone here who would disagree with you, including myself. But if pretty is what I was looking for in an aircraft I would pick the first couple marks of the Spitfire, or maybe even the P-51D Mustang....

wuzak said:
...More industrial. Like it is made from steel girders.

That's a great way to describe it too.

ARTESH · Feb 10, 2018

Well, I don't know most of them!
But i selected "F4U CorsAir" ...

pbehn · Feb 10, 2018

DarrenW said:
I don't think you'd find anyone here who would disagree with you, including myself. But if pretty is what I was looking for in an aircraft I would pick the first couple marks of the Spitfire, or maybe even the P-51D Mustang....

There is pretty, then there is ugly and then there is mean. The first Bf 109s were so pretty they were cute, by the time they had sprouted all their lumps bumps and carbuncles they were just plain mean looking. The Spitfire was the belle of the ball but became tired of various ne'er do wells playing on her better nature she developed a lumpy, bumpy mean streak. The P51 was lowly borne but ambitious, no looker in adolescence she made the best use of all her assets and when fully mature she had everyone's attention. Meanwhile there was the Skua, an ugly plane named after an ugly bird, it decided what it really needed was a turret and to be named after a mythical beast with an ugly name. Gentlemen I give you the Blackburn Roc, the ugliest of ugly ducklings.

pbehn · Feb 10, 2018

ARTESH said:
Well, I don't know most of them!
But i selected "F4U CorsAir" ...

Were you between a Roc and a hard place?

ARTESH · Feb 10, 2018

pbehn said:
Were you between a Roc and a hard place?

pbehn · Feb 10, 2018

There was a floatplane version of the Roc, it was competitive with maritime gliders of the period/

ARTESH · Feb 10, 2018

pbehn said:
There was a floatplane version of the Roc, it was competitive with maritime gliders of the period/

Aha!
Sorry.
But i knew (and currently, know) less than 10 of them! (as you can guess, mostly German ones).

swampyankee · Feb 10, 2018

pbehn said:
There was a floatplane version of the Roc, it was competitive with maritime gliders of the period/

Barely. I think a Catalina could out-dogfight a Blackburn Roc on floats.

pbehn · Feb 10, 2018

ARTESH said:
Aha!
Sorry.
But i knew (and currently, know) less than 10 of them! (as you can guess, mostly German ones).

Feast your eyes on this little honey

Blackburn Roc - Wikipedia

ARTESH · Feb 10, 2018

But can someone Explain me why is "IAR 80" in the List?
a little hard for me to understand it!

ARTESH · Feb 10, 2018

Well, not a ww2 Warplane!
But i think that F-313 is Ugliest plane ever made!

ARTESH · Feb 10, 2018

pbehn said:
Feast your eyes on this little honey

Blackburn Roc - Wikipedia

Currently reading Article.

Hansie Bloeckmann · Feb 10, 2018

Gabelschwanz_Teufel said:
I'd like to ask the two wankers who voted for the Corsair how they could do so?

For my diner it was one of the best looking aircraft. Those gull wings, deep blue steel coloration, tapered fuselage. Just gorgeous. Right up there with the mustang and that beauty to the left! LOL

The Stuka was pretty cool too. I must have a thing for gull wings, eh?

Herr "Fork-tailed Devil" has it right- I vote the P-51 series and the F4U Corsair the best looking of the American fighter plane line-up. The great advantage the P-38 Lightning had was the front mounted guns that didn't have to be fired through a propeller arc-- where you had the nose pointed, there were the guns also pointed, right?? I'm not a serious student of the Japanese, or Russian planes in WW2- but of all the various fighter planes flown by the Luftwaffe 1939=1945-- The BF-109 series had that same deadly line that a Luger P08 pistol possesed- and many of Germany's top pilots ran up a large number of "kills" in Messerschmitts--Ja!!

Graeme · Feb 10, 2018

The SE.580. Never completed - probably a good thing....

Sud-Est (SNCASE) SE 580 Fighter

WWII's ugliest fighter (of these options)

WWII's ugliest fighter

I-15 / I-153

I-16

LaGG-1 / LaGG-3

MiG-1 / MiG-3

Yak-1 (or later Yak's)

Cr. 32

Cr. 42

G.50

MC 200

C.202 / C.205

Re 2000

Re 2001

Re 2002

Re 2005

Bf 109 E and earlier

Bf 109 F and later

Bf 110

Ju 88 fighters

he 219

Me 262

Me 210 / Me 410

Me 163

Fw 190A / F / G

Fw 190 D / Ta 152

D 520

MB 150 / 151 / 152 / 155

Morane Ms 406 etc

Potez 630 series

Fokker D.XXI

PZL P.11, P.7, P.24

IAR 80

VL Myrsky

Boomerang

Rogyzarski

A6M

A5M

J2M

N1K series

Ki-43

Ki-44

Ki-61

Ki-84

Skua

Defiant

Gladiator

Meteor

Whirlwind

Beaufighter

Fulmar

Firefly

Spitfire (!) be prepared to explain

Hurricane

Typhoon

Tempest

P-35

P-38

P-40

P-47

P-51 (especially razorback models?)

P-61

F2A

F4F

F4U

F6F

P-70 / Havoc

Airman

Major General

Staff Sergeant

Captain

Colonel

Chief Master Sergeant

Staff Sergeant

Chief Master Sergeant

Colonel

Colonel

Chief Master Sergeant

Colonel

Chief Master Sergeant