Ugliest helicopters ever created

[TheMightyFavog]

My vote goes to the Kaman Huskie



Yeah, ugly as all hell, but probably saved a lot of lives in Vietnam.

[Crabby Appleton]

1. Sikorsky Skycrane

[cwydro]

3. THAT is a weird one.

Hard to believe it can fly.

[Crabby Appleton]

8. they fly alright, used for heavy-lift operations

[krispos42]

16. A helicopter hauling a helicopter...

nice

[Crabby Appleton]

17. On the news today in the Malibu fire - saw a skycrane

fitted with a water tank dumping water on the fire and re-filling at a lake/reservoir.

[Hand]

19. Yep.

Couple of years ago, I saw a CO National Guard Skycrane working a hilltop forest fire. BIG old helo hard at work.

[CGowen]

2. MI-1 ?

[rug]

4. Mustang whirlybird: Hughes' XH-17

[TheMightyFavog]

5. How about the Kaman K-MAX?

[TheMightyFavog]

6. And now for some uglieness from the other side of the Iron Curtain...

The Kamov KA-25

[ET Awful]

7. Soviet HIND-D?

[ironflange]

13. Yeah, that's ugly

But man, that's gotta be one bad-ass machine.

[mainegreen]

18. I always thought that was a beautiful copter, in an insect sort of way.

:shrug:

[JBoy]

9. This one, in about 5 seconds

[Hand]

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:toast:

[JBoy]

10. Or this one

Note the wide stance.

[MilesColtrane]

11. HRP-1

Looks like a design by a mad scientist, or a 13 yr. old boy.

[Richard Steele]

14. That one looks like a Zeppelin took a giant poo. nm

[mark414]

12. that thing looks like a modified VW bus

[Blue-Jay]

15. Mi28 Havoc

The nose looks like an ugly cartoon beagle.

[Hand]

21. Pimp my Mi-24 Hind!