Ugliest planes, created...

[Archae]

Name this one...



And try showing any that are uglier!

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Ar! Goblin... Goblin...

McDonnel XF-85 Goblin. "Parasite" fighter designed to be launched from the bomb bay of a B-36 and "landed" by hooking onto a crane beneath the bomber.

How about this one? :D

[Archae]

14. The Nazis always were going in circles...

[rockymountaindem]

32. FW-189

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. That'd be the Owl

Otherwise known as the "flying greenhouse."

[rockymountaindem]

38. Oh shit

I've seen that lopsided job before. I know it's a Focke Wulf production but I can't remember the number I guess. Crap.

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. It's not a Focke Wulf

It's German, but not from a well-known manufacturer.

[TheMightyFavog]

2. I got an ugly plane for you...

Made in Poland for the Soviet Union's agricultural sector... The M-15 Belphegor, the world's only jet powered biplane.

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. Oh man! That thing FLIES?

damn

[Wcross]

11. WOW- that is a neat plane! n/t

[Kutjara]

33. It looks like two planes mating. n/t

[piesRsquare]

4. You guys are hilarious!

Thanks for the laughs! Keep 'em coming....pleeeeease! :rofl:

[piesRsquare]

5. OK--I got one!

The Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF)!

[Heidi]

6. The Boeing Super-guppy!

:rofl: :spray:

[Archae]

12. Ok, who overfed the plane?

:D

[Wcross]

16. NOT a Boeing 747-400 Large Cargo Freighter.

Thats a super Guppy. I had the pleasure of touring one about 10 years ago when it stopped at my local airport.

[eppur_se_muova]

28. Beluga's even uglier.

[devilgrrl]

30. That looks like the head of the Alien

[ashling]

34. Loooks like a Beluga Whale

or is it Balauga?

[cwydro]

7. I love these plane threads...

and this one is a riot!

More please!

[CGowen]

8. Dornier Do- X

[cwydro]

10. It's a plane! It's a boat!

What the hell?!

[DrDan]

9. the Airtruk

[cwydro]

13. here's a pretty one

[rug]

15. The Stipa-Caproni;

[cwydro]

17. Tell me that thing can fly!

:rofl:

[rug]

19. It is the factor most responsible for the Italian military prowess of the 20th century.

[cwydro]

21. I can see that!

giggle.

[Wcross]

18. Here ya go!

I don't know why it won't come up as a picture:wtf:

[Gold Metal Flake]

26. Because Geocities sucks. I think that is a Geebee.

An air racer from the thirties.

[NV Whino]

39. Aw come on the Beegee is cute

or is it geebee?

[Archae]

20. Ok, who sawed the ass off the last two?

:D

[baldguy]

22. IAI Phalcon 707

[Archae]

23. The Jimmy Durante plane!

:D

[Arkansas Granny]

53. It made me think of a proboscis monkey.

[ashling]

37. Da Pwane has a told in it's dose

n/t

[guitar man]

47. I find it amusing that

they chose to spell it "PHALcon". It certainly is phallic in nature :D

[jmowreader]

24. A handful of ugly-ass airplanes...

Pilatus PC-6 "Turbo Porter"


Air Tractor AT-402


Lockheed C-130


The plane Shrub flew in the National Guard (before he was grounded, that is)

[qnr]

29. Hmmmm, I never considered the Hercules ugly.

Of course, I'm used to a more cheerful color scheme:

[Aristus]

31. The C-130 is like an albatross; ugly on the ground. Breathtaking in flight.

I used to watch them soar over the airfield at my Army post in Germany. I couldn't believe they were C-130's, those ugly-ass things that waddle down the runway. They looked magnificent in mid-air...

[qnr]

35. Ah, so then the Albatross was ugly! I guess it was, but kinda neat too:

[Hand]

48. Second best transport aircraft ever!

After the C-47, of course. Often imitated, never equaled! :toast:

[Ryano42]

50. * I heard only flew in the trainer...TF-102

He was that BAD of a pilot...plus he needed the extra cockpit room to do lines! :rofl:

Read a report of * flying a Cessna; over revved the engine, poor skills, nearly broke the mains on landing...he fucks up everything.

EVERYTHING.

[cloudbase]

25. AN-2

My A&P is actually restoring one of these for a museum. It's ugly inside and out, but it's built to take a beating.

[TheMightyFavog]

54. Are those the Polish variants?

I read somewhere that all the other variants of the AN-2 made before 1993 aren't certified, therefore they have a ton of restrictions placed on them.

Shame, really. AN-2s have the kind of STOL capabilities that bush pilots would go gaga for.

[Hand]

57. I saw a bunch of those once!

Parked in a rural airstrip in Cuba. Quite possibly the only biplanes I've seen outside a museum. Pretty cool. :toast:

[cloudbase]

27. And one for the glider community

Looks like a couple of Blanik L-13s tied together. I learned to fly in an L-13.

[Lautremont]

40. This is the ugliest one I can think of:

[Cannikin]

42. The A380 hasnt grown on me yet....

[ronnykmarshall]

43. The Flying Cow Turd?

[cobalt1999]

44. I've never liked the B-2

Reminds me of comparing 1950's style automobiles to the current homogeneous bubble cars of today, no real style.

[achtung_circus]

45. DeHavilland Canada DHC-3 Otter

which, with original engining, sounds like a make and break one lunger on a fishing boat.

[av8rdave]

46. I've got a crapload of hours teaching in this...

The T-37. Pretty $#@! ugly. We used to say it doesn't fly - it's repulsed by the ground. At least it was noisy!

[Hand]

49. Convair XFY-1 Pogo...

A resoundingly ill-conceived VTOL experiment. Seems it was a bit difficult to land. :dunce: :rofl:

[Hand]

51. ME 163 Komet

It was supposed to save the Third Reich, but had a bad habit of killing off its pilots...

[Greyskye]

55. Any flight that starts off by having the wheels fall off

never appealed to me for some reason.

[Hand]

56. Especially when they bounce.

Which they did (hmm, rubber...), sometimes high enough to hit the aircraft and send it to a spectacular end. After the first few times, the pilots wre told to use a steeper takeoff angle. As if they had much control over that or anything else! :scared:

[ironflange]

61. The Komet is kool!

Watch this, and tell me it ain't!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UkjRsE62QYY

Holy shit, lookit that thing go!

[porphyrian]

52. Maladomini is particularly wretched.

[Greyskye]

58. Very Punny.

:D

[KamaAina]

59. The ugliest plane ever to take to the skies...

Check out that ugly lump at the top of the stairway! :puke:

[midnight armadillo]

60. Here's two

The Boeing X-32 (part of the JSF competition) was cool looking in an ugly sort of way:


The Burt Rutan Boomerang is an odd one too:

[ironflange]

62. Here's another wacky Nazi machine

Blohm und Voss 141



It actually was very stable and pleasant to fly, and field of view was outstanding.